Word: heard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...helpless railroad clerks." Each damned clerk would try first "to find or create a job for himself," then try "to find or create a job for 23 others." Last week Legionnaires Miller and Carr reported results: eight jobs found, two in sight. Pennsy's President Martin Clement heard about the Legion, praised the clerks' initiative, saw that several (including Mr. Miller) got their old jobs back...
Last Big Man up was Pius XII. Like some of the others, he had made private peace negotiations. Now, in the first encyclical of his reign, he grieved that "our advice, if heard with respect, was not, however, followed." Summi Pontificatus accepted War II as an inevitable finish fight, although its author pledged himself to try to "hasten the day when the dove of peace may find on this earth, submerged in a deluge of discord, somewhere to alight...
...Chamberlain said he did not "propose to waste time by commenting at length." That the speech was unsubtle at least in its efforts to pry France from England was proved by the Paris reaction-gay ridicule. Italians were a bit hurt by the fact that over the radio they heard no sound when Ribbentrop praised Italy but a huge cheer when Russia was mentioned...
...which he quickly recognized. "In this very field once lay the dead bodies of German soldiers. A short distance away was a small hill where one morning I had seen a cavalry charge in a snowstorm. Now it was occupied by some of our mechanized troops who had never heard of that fight and stared at me when I told them about it as though incredulous...
...Hedda Hopper, with this story up her sleeve, heard that a rival columnist was about to break it. On a Saturday night at nine o'clock, with three hours to make the deadline for the Times early-morning editions, she picked up a telephone and tried to get James Roosevelt at his home in Beverly Hills. Two hours later she was still ringing, had got no answer. So Hedda Hopper sat down and wrote her story...