Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...naming of Butler was variously accounted for. A week before, the choice of Representative Burton to give the keynote speech at Cleveland was hailed as a victory for the President's secretary, Mr. Slemp. Butler and Frank W. Stearns, the President's intimate advisors, had not heard of Burton's choice in advance. Coolidge let it be known that Burton was his personal choice, but it was suspected that Slemp might have inspired it? and if so that Slemp might inspire himself as choice for the National Committee Chairmanship...
While these arguments were being heard, Senate committees continued to summon witnesses...
According to published figures, more than 3,000 candidates were to contest the elections (on May 11) for 584 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. The electorate was said to be dazed by these numbers of candidates, many of whose names the man-in-the-street had never heard...
...bearing a shining cross of gold, torchbearers in red cassocks and cottas, priests in serried ranks followed by monks of the Order of the Holy Cross and the Cowley Fathers. To Mass- High Mass- they went, 700 strong, Had the Martian proceeded to the Witherspoon Auditorium, he would have heard them sing a song, Hail, Mary. Then he would have heard theological utterances; which, apparently to the satisfaction of all present, gave the coupe de grace to certain people variously styled as heretics and modernists. And he would have heard applauded a speech by one Father Joseph G. H. Barry...
...Heard Bishop Nuelson of Zurich, Switzerland, on the desperate plight of Europe and the danger to Protestant...