Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate-Heard the President's message read by its Secretary...
...Heard the President's budget message read by its Secretary...
...Heard the President's message read by its clerk...
...Damrosch raised his arm and thereafter the assembled audience listened intently for a considerable time. They heard pinguid plati- tudes of the symphonic concert hall resuscitated; they heard discreet echoes of Tschaikowsky, of Stravinsky, of Rachmaninov; they heard sentimental melodies in pseudo-jazz they heard the anxiously im- mature opus of a youth who-no longer child of the Cyclades and of Broadway-has become an earnest aspirant for musical respectability. There was nothing daring, nothing racy, nothing even individual Law- rence Gilman said...
Last week in Manhattan the Association of Life Insurance Presidents heard its Chairman, William A. Law, President of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co., read some reports. He said that there are 54,000,000 policyholders in the U. S., and that they carry $72,000,000,000 in life insurance. The total invested assets of the companies amount to $11,400,000,000. The average insurance carried by each policyholder is $1,333, and the payments this year totaled $1,500,000,000, which is nearly ten times what was paid...