Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover. Candidate Hoover last week made his first campaign speech. It was so brief, so quiet that only one newspaper (the New York World) heard about it until the next day. It was in Washington, at a banquet which the 80-odd U. S. Representatives invited were asked to keep secret. It took the form of a bow, some thanks, an exhortation to keep fighting and a promise to vindicate the fighters' choice. Representative Dyer of Missouri enlivened the evening with a veritable placing-in-nomination speech, but of greater significance was a statement by Campbell Bascom Slemp, astute...
...trio had been called as a result of developments earlier in the week. From witness after witness the Committee had heard more about strike conditions in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Clergymen and newsgatherers (including passionate Fannie Hurst) had brought fresh tales of squalor, brutality, poverty, Bolshevism...
...acre plantations of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. and experimenting with their radio. Last week, on a wave length of 43.5 metres over a distance of 4,600 miles, Rubberman Firestone radiobroadcast to Akron, Ohio, news of the latest Firestone plantation operations. Men in the Akron plant heard and heeded the words of their president...
Jerusalem has always been the town of miracles, a place where the beating of invisible wings can still be heard, sometimes, in the warm air. It is the town, also, from which the apostles departed upon their dazzling, dangerous journeys. No more suitable point of focus could have been discovered for those who are engaged in spreading God's word. This fact especially is satisfying to Chairman Mott, a man whose energetic character resembles some laboratory apparatus of light and sensitive leaves, trembling with the great force an exterior electricity has communicated to them. On the night...
...give the rest of the U. S. an unbiased view of New England, "to stem the flow of low meanings, heard both within and without," the New England Council was formed in 1925 at a meeting of businessmen and governors of the six New England states. Last fortnight, this "stimulating and coordinating agency" assembled in Providence, R.I. Its president, John Silsbee Lawrence, 49, Boston dry goods merchant, bank director, member of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, pointed with pride to the accomplishments and plans...