Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shrill of his words had hardly died away when the faint voice of Generalissimo Smoot was heard. Asked he: Had not Candidate Herbert Hoover promised the American people limited tariff revision? He believed that this tariff bill was what the President had promised. The Democratic party was a low-tariff party with its past written all over the pages of tariff history. The Republican party alone ever gave the farmers any protection. No greater calamity could happen to the U. S. than to listen to the low-tariff advocates. So Generalissimo Smoot...
These words had hardly rebounded from the Heaviside Layer when Jouette Shouse, Quarter-Master-General of the Democratic Army, seized the microphone and cried: "We have heard from self-appointed in- terpreters, who continue to assert that Mr. Hoover will not stand for a wholesale tariff raid. But what sort of chief executive is it who would permit his own Congress to make a larcenous hash of its whole session...
...Manhattan, Patrolman George Schuchman. emerged from a cigar store, heard someone (voice not recognized) cry: "Hey, George, those two guys are stealing my gin." Drawing his revolver, determined to fire into the air, the police-man shot one of the hijackers through the head, found 125 bottles of gin in four abandoned parcels. Police inspectors investigated, declared that the patrolman had done his duty...
Charles Gates Dawes, violinist, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, once in his spare time wrote a simple Melody in A Major which is heard in the U. S. chiefly on a phonograph record by Violinist Fritz Kreisler. Ambassador Dawes is today a London vogue. So, reported Publishers Boosey & Co., is his Melody in A Major. Orchestras play it in leading restaurants. Sheet-music sales are great. His Master's Voice and the Columbia companies will soon issue new recordings. Fortnight ago William F. Kenny, rich...
...evening last week a secretary at No. 10 Downing Street, dingy brick residence of Britain's Prime Minister, answered the telephone, started slightly, and later said that what he had heard was: "Hello? This is Charlie Dawes. Tell the Prime Minister I'm coming right over"?click! Within 15 minutes the Ambassador was at No. 10. Heartily greeted by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, he planked down on the long table in the Cabinet Room a new naval offer from President Herbert Hoover...