Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alert, clear-eyed, sharp-eared, she heard Chief Justice Taft begin the oath: "You, Herbert Hoover, do you solemnly swear . . ." And what was her amazement to hear him conclude, "preserve, maintain and defend the Constitution of the U. S." That was a bad misquotation of the text, thought Helen, who sat right down and wrote the Chief Justice a polite note of correction...
...industry's overproduction, not its underhanded dealings with the U. S., prompted the Hoover decree. As Secretary of Commerce Mr. Hoover was a member of the Federal Oil Conservation Board and heard predictions by fellow engineers that the U.S. oil resources would be exhausted in five, ten or 25 years, unless steps were taken to check the flow. He knew the U.S. possessed only some 15% of the world's oil supply, yet was producing 70% of the world's demand...
Bureaucrat Young. Clarence M. Young, Director of the Department of Commerce's air section, who is flying his own plane on a European air inspection junket, reached Berlin last week. There he inspected the great Tempelhof airport, visited the Rohrbach works, heard that the Germans this summer plan to operate air service from Germany to both North and South America...
This jolly song was heard every night last week by every Briton who tuned in on the London Daily Express's patriotic Egg Hour. Thus one of the Empire's great newspapers rallied to Her Majesty the Queen-Empress who recently signed an order in council (TIME, Feb. 25) decreeing that...
...Concordat and Financial Agreement was signed (TIME, Feb. 18). Such was the iron efficacy of Dictator Benito Mussolini's censorship that the Italian press had not yet printed a single word of what was to occur. None the less the Pontiff's niece, like everyone else, had heard rumors, and she asked...