Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is war in Nicaragua. It is not the war of the American people. ... If the President can send our Marines to wage war in Nicaragua the President can send an army and the navy to Great Britain and bombard London tomorrow. . . . etc., etc., etc." The House heard much oratory of this kind from excitable members. But nothing happened. Leaders of both parties were content to let the Administration work out its own salvation in policing Nicaragua. (See page...
Last week Secretary Andrew William Mellon furnished Funnyman Harry Lauder with an anecdote than which Sir Harry and some 240,000 others had seldom heard a better. The anecdote: It seems that the U. S. Treasury Department and U. S. taxpayers had, between them, made many a mistake in the amounts of taxes payable for fiscal years from 1927 back to 1925 and beyond. These mistakes netted the U. S. a total overpayment of $103,858,687.78. Last week Secretary Mellon sent Congress the names-numbering some 240,000 and taking up 12,133 typed pages- of the taxpayers...
...clever inventor came to the U.S. last week with the news that he had found a means of clipping the telephone's claws, of removing one of its most obvious defects. Reporters, with naive excitement heard a description of Inventor J.G. Larsson's device. Its purpose is to write down the telephone messages when the intended recipient does not answer the telephone. Constructed on the principle of a dictaphone, the device establishes a connection after the signal has sounded, then it sounds a signal to indicate that a device, not a person, is ready to receive any desired...
...ministers, who had congregated in Manhattan from all parts of the U. S., next visited the headquarters of the Communist party where they heard Harry W. Wicks, an editor of The Daily Worker making a speech. First he assailed preachers for their failure to take an active interest in labor problems; then he began to speak about famed clergyman John Roach Straton: "He is the most palpable ignoramus in the U. S.!" said H. W. Wycks. Then he added, "Fortunately, there are not many like him." The 40 ministers said, "Thank God for that...
Some two thousand learned men assembled in Washington, discussed the family, advertising, religion, voting, marketing, business-at various sessions, many held simultaneously; listened to President Emeritus Arthur Twining Hadley, of Yale, explain that "the only way to get low railroad rates is to attract new capital"; heard Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer, of Princeton, Poland's financial savior, warn that it is time to face the probability of currency chaos caused by discovery of synthetic gold; heard Professor William Bennett Munro, of Harvard, urge science in politics, denounce "bawling at the voter"; chuckled when Professor Thomas Sewall Adams, of Yale...