Word: heard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They had heard all about the Brannan plan, and what they had heard made them uneasy. At first blush, the plan sounded fine. Market prices on perishables would be allowed to drop to their natural level, thereby pleasing the consumers. The Government would pay the difference to the farmer, giving him higher subsidies than he now got, thereby tickling the farmer too. And yet all this probably wouldn't cost the taxpayer any more than the present farm program because the Department of Agriculture would so skillfully estimate crop needs and so carefully rig subsidy prices that the nation...
With General Vaughan standing in his usual place behind him, Mr. Truman faced the press. Had the President heard that "General Vaughan was mixed up in all this?" The President had read the newspaper stories, he said, but didn't believe them. General Vaughan smiled sadly. Did Mr. Truman "believe General Vaughan's statement [blurted out in anger] that there are 300 five-percenters in Washington?" General Vaughan glared at the questioner. Mr. Truman avowed he didn't know anything about it. The newspaper fellows were supposed to know all about those things...
...never a particularly distinguished jurist; it was not his game. But he did make his voice heard in defense of civil liberties-in which he included the right of Jehovah's Witnesses even to blaspheme his own Catholic Church. He protested the court-martial of the Japanese General Homma, who ordered the Bataan death march, as no trial at all but a "revengeful blood purge." Gradually he withdrew from social life. His heart had never been quite equal to his spiritual drive, nor was it equal to the exacting, wearing work of the court. His Bible...
...sweltering evening, the shouts from the union hall on Kansas City's Main Street could be heard almost a block away. There was a crash of glass, and some bodies hurtled out onto the tile roof. One man dropped to the lawn, then dashed back upstairs to rejoin the fighting. Congressmen Leonard Irving, who is also president and business agent of Kansas City's Hod Carriers' Building and Common Laborers' Union (A.F.L.), was talking things over with his rank & file...
Sometimes he was pushed to defy orders from his U.S. superiors when General de Gaulle gave him contrary orders. When De Gaulle heard that the armistice was to be signed in Berlin without a French representative, he ordered De Lattre to go straight to Berlin without asking anyone's permission and to sign; De Lattre went and signed-as a witness. Then he issued one of his Napoleonic orders of the day: "The day of victory has arrived . . . victory of May, radiant victory of springtime, which gives back to our France her youth, her strength and her hope...