Word: heard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Congress heard President Roosevelt's special message on Relief last fortnight, requesting an additional $875,000,000 to operate WPA from February through June 1939, some of the biggest spenders on Capitol Hill widened their eyes. That would be spending at the same rate as in June of last year, when WPA plunged in to meet Depression II, now superseded by Recovery. With whoops of economic righteousness, the House of Representatives last week fell upon the President's WPA request...
...while lawyers-talking of poverty, slum life, marijuana, liquor-urged him to commute the sentences of the five women's five sons, aged 19 to 27, who were doomed to die January 26 for committing murder in the holdup of a Manhattan gambling house.* When Governor Lehman had heard all, he solemnly shook the mothers' hands, took a last look into their five anxious faces (see cut), promised to ponder his decision...
...another pilot's wife, Mrs. "Cash" Chamberlain has listened for years at 3,105 kilocycles on the short-wave radio for her husband's cheery voice while he, a 1,000,000-mile veteran, was on his Northwest Airlines runs. One night last week, after she had heard his buoyant "okay" as he left the plateau airport at Miles City, Mont., his voice suddenly came in again, strained, desperate: "Dispatcher! Dispatcher!" Later that night she learned that he, his crack copilot, Raymond B. Norby, and their two passengers were dead. Just out of Miles City in a light...
Last October, Colonel Ruppert did not see the World Series. Ill with phlebitis (inflammation of the veins), he listened at his radio, beamed with joy as he heard his beloved Yankees annihilate the Chicago Cubs in four straight victories. The colonel was as pleased as Punch. His Yankees were toasted as the greatest team in baseball history, the only outfit that ever won three World Series in a row. His farm teams, too, were tops. Of his 14 minor-league teams, eight won their pennants, one took the Little World Series, and four others got into playoffs...
Most swing enthusiasts are bored by highbrow music; most concertgoers are irritated by swing. But the world's No. 1 highbrow fiddler, Joseph Szigeti,* and the world's No. 1 swing clarinetist, Benny Goodman, have long admired each other. When Hungarian-born Szigeti heard Goodman last year, he was so impressed that he wrote home to his friend, Composer Bela Bartók, asking him to compose something that he and Goodman could play together. Absent-minded Bartók didn't even bother to answer, but surprised Szigeti a few months later by sending...