Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...element, minus Senator Walsh, was not as formidable as the Wet among those present. But trepidation was felt until William Gibbs McAdoo began to be heard from. That he would not be "unharmonious" was apparent as soon as he said: "When I ran into Will Rogers today...
Mayor Oscar Holcombe, when he heard the news last week, recalled that the American Bankers Association and the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World survived conventions in Houston. Jesse Holman Jones announced magnificently that a $100,000 "tabernacle," seating 25,000, would be built at once...
Blease v. Diplomats. Last week when Senator Coleman Livingston Blease of South Carolina, Grand Patriarch of I. O. O. F. of S. C., Past Great Sachem of the Improved Order of Red Men, etc., etc., heard that 14-year-old Henry A. Howard, son of British Ambassador to the U. S. Sir Esme Howard, had injured a little girl in an automobile accident in Washington, D. C., he interrupted the business of the Senate with the following...
...Senator Norris of Nebraska began urging a constitutional amendment to let the peoples' voice be heard afresh, in Congress and in the White House, without anachronistic delay. Thrice the Senate approved the Norris Resolution. Thrice the House remained static. Last fortnight the proposal to exterminate "lame duck" legislators and executives passed the Senate again, 67 to 6, and was sent to the House. It provided that Congress shall meet every year on January 4; that Congress shall sit every other year until through its business and at least until April 30 in the years between; that Presidential inaugurals shall...
...five hundred hens of the Cackle Corner Poultry Farm at Garrettsville, Ohio, cocked a frightened eye, ran wildly about the barnyard, bumped into, trampled on, injured one another. Next day they did not lay so many eggs. Reason: hens have ears (not visible to the casual observer) and they heard the ear-splitting roar of a low-flying airplane carrying U. S. mail. This roar came twice daily and began to interfere with the profits of the proprietor of the Cackle Corner Poultry Farm. So he wrote a protest last week to U. S. Postmaster General Harry S. New. Prompt...