Word: heard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...somewhat reserved, had our information, she wrote to the Sicilian official who has sworn to get Giuliano dead or alive, asking for a transcript of the seven-page list of crimes the bandit is charged with, and to the Italian Embassy in Washington. At this writing she had not heard from either of them...
Minnesota's freshman New Dealer Hubert Humphrey read a speech 105 pages long. Senators from the industrial East, Senators from the conservative South, were waiting to be heard. It would be a long hot summer in Washington...
Fifteen years after he had married Ellen, Jack McCloy, a U.S. Assistant Secretary of War, heard Lieut. General Courtney Hodges explain that he was about to shell Rothenburg. McCloy had visited Rothenburg and he remembered it -the narrow cobbled streets within the wall, the Gothic spires, the Renaissance houses. "Do you have to destroy Rothenburg?" he pleaded. "Maybe not," said Hodges. "Maybe the town can be induced to surrender." Negotiations were begun. Next day Rothenburg surrendered, and in 1948, out of gratitude, it made Jack McCloy an honorary citizen...
...clash between American Democracy and Catholic Power arises, as Blanshard shows, because this control which the Church seeks to exert is necessarily illiberal, since it denies the right of "error" (in other words, any view which disagrees with the Church's official position) to be heard. Blanshard's book is a carefully documented study of how the Church is now trying to exert this control in the United States. What makes "American Democracy and Catholic Power" worthy of wide circulation is that most Americans are unaware of the extent of the Church's success in this effort at control...
...morning session, presided over by Marvin Bower '30, chairman of the committee. the alumni heard L. R. Boulware, vice-president of the General Electric Co., suggest city-wide courses in economics for adults. Bowlware also attacked proposed changes in the Taft-Hartley law and declared that the pressure on Congressmen to change the act was not truly representative of the will of the people...