Word: heard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington heard that one to one-and-one-half billions was the total in the Lend-Spenders' minds for their new pump-priming act. Secretary Morgenthau was reported to have traded his support to the plan in return for the President's acquiescence in income tax revision (see p. 16). Majority Leader Barkley assured his Senate mates that the program, whatever shape it might finally take, would not be dumped sensationally into Congress' lap this session. The way for it might be paved simply by extending the authority of existing agencies, such...
...down just in time, Administrator Francis Clark ("Pink") Harrington of WPA, last week went up to the Capitol armed with a 39-page statement and a heart full of spunk. The subcommittee charged with producing a Relief bill for 1940. headed by Virginia's urbane Representative Woodrum, had heard scores of witnesses. Now at last it was the turn of "Pink" Harrington, the one man most vitally affected by changes the bill they had already drafted would make in his regime...
...evening, for instance, as Anna was sitting by her father's bed, she heard dance music floating over from the house next door. She longed to join the party, but sternly repressed the wish. Afterward, whenever she heard the strong rhythm of dance music, she began to cough, almost as though she were beating time. Most astounding part of the case, said Dr. Breuer, was this: as soon as Anna understood the origin and nature of her symptoms, they disappeared...
...latest reports no definite cause for the crash had been ascertained. But when Mexico City heard the news it was inconsolably angry. A vegetable vendor yelled, "The gringos killed him!" A Mexican newspaper printed dark hints which added up to charges of sabotage. The Mexican Ambassador in Washington called these accusations "imbecile." But in Mexico City a mob of students stoned a U. S. school and a cordon of police was thrown around the U. S. Embassy. And when the U. S. bomber bearing the flier's body reached the Mexican capital, that too was pelted with stones...
Nearly 800 Seniors and their families and friends heard the President advise the class of 1939 to resist "the impact of the immediate present, the corrosive atmosphere of potential strife," and to develop their own talents and individualities...