Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President delivered his first message to Congress on the State of the Union and was heard by radio telephony by a "million" people...
...Heard the President's message in joint session with the House...
...Heard the President's message...
...that Bostonians have heard what city councilmen a few of their number have elected they can begin to wonder just why the Democratic Committee so very nearly swept the polls. The fact that it was admitted to be "a contest of the politicians against the so-called reform organizations" makes the victory all the stranger. An answer to the rather vexing problem presented by the result, of the elections can be found in Mr. Frank R. Kent's articles in the World's Work on "The Great Game of Politics"; and in one word that answer is: "machine...
...days when the cry of "no taxation without representation" was first heard in Parliament, English political leaders had recourse to an argument which England herself has since repudiated. Rejecting the idea of geographical representation except as a convenient method of election, they erected instead the idea of class representation. Their idea fell victim to tendencies of the time, and the twentieth century has seen the triumph of universal suffrage and geographical representation. But with victory attained for the new idea, the old has again emerged. In the Economic Council of the new German Republic, in certain features...