Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Second, the new plans as I have heard them discussed have not specified at all that executive responsibility for the Charity Drive should be completely separated from the Student Council. The question of who can, or will, or should assume responsibility for initiating and organizing the drive each year is certainly important; but the Council's excellent conduct of this year's successful drive provides a very strong argument for leaving the basic executive responsibility where it now rests, in the Council. John U. Monro '34, Dean of Harvard College...
...proposal to close part of Walker St. to provide additional land for the new Peabody School was sent to the City Council's Finance Committee yesterday after the full Council heard public discussion of the proposal...
...record 15,900-more than 16% of the labor force. Lines started forming on Lafayette Street for handouts of surplus Government beans, rice and butter. At one point the city's Council of Community Services reported 3,788 hardship cases per month, and people could be heard wishing that Studebaker would go under once and for all. Says a Chamber of Commerce official: "A minority wanted Studebaker to die, so we could take a fresh look at our future. But most people thought if we lose Studey, South Bend will be in real trouble...
...McCone while he was still on the stand, he grew red with anger, waved it in the air, cried: "I just don't know why I am here, Mr. Chairman. I find that Mr. Holifield had a press release all printed and written up before he even heard what I had to say. If you want me to come up and testify, listen to me, and then make up your minds." Holifield replied with a maxim oft quoted by Harry Truman: "If you can't stand the heat, don't go into the kitchen...
...book becomes almost worth reading when, in one incredible passage that may well benumb the entire Shakespeare-Bacon controversy, the author has a tribune tongue-lash the Senate: "You, Romans, friends and countrymen, have heard me before. I come not to honor Rome but to bury her." Author Caldwell ends her story as Lucanus meets Christ's mother, in a din of paraphrased Hail Marys and purple Passion ("She stood against the background of the hot and brazen mounts, and it seemed to him that she had grown very tall, and that she was clothed in pure light...