Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Central Executive Committee Congress by Premier Vyacheslav Molotov, an earnest and statistical-minded statesman who seldom makes less than a three-hour speech, began last week with Joseph Stalin in the back row. Three and a half hours later the Dictator was in the front row, the better to hear the Premier who had grown somewhat hoarse...
...compelling emotional appeal, everything she accomplished was the result of grueling work. To learn English and to get some schooling, her father bound her out to a Minneapolis family. Great was the sensation when in later years the head of that household refused to pay for a ticket to hear a person sing who had been a "servant" in his family. In Minneapolis Fremstad gave her first formal concert, earned enough to go to Manhattan where the late Frederick Bristol gave her lessons in return for which she played the accompaniments for all his other pupils. As a soloist...
...pick up shoes and stockings and books from the floor or dirty pajamas and bathrobes from the beds if you boys are too lazy to do it yourself. As soon as you come in pick up all the things and put them in the closet right away. Do you hear...
Frankly, we liked the speech primarily because it was chucked full of fight and vigor. Mr. Roosevelt socked it to 'cm in the language we like to hear. We hasten to add that we have never been in sympathy with all of the President's program. We have come to think, however, that Mr. Roosevelt is making a sincere try to do something for the common people of the land...
Thence by and by to the Yard where I did tarry for a moment to watch the noon stokes of the Memorial Church bell and so immediately to the Large Room at the Foogg where I did hear Professor Chase conclude the first half of the history of art with a lecture on Roman Sculpture. And it did make me sad at heart that the Italians don't spend more time reviving their artistic tradition and less chasing innocent, water-soaked Ethiopians...