Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German Reichstag, its membership now swollen to 855 members by the addition of Ostmark (Austrian) and Sudeten deputies, met in Berlin's Kroll Opera House one night early this week to hear the address of Führer Adolf Hitler on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of Nazi rule. While Germans listened with pride at the recital of past Nazi victories, an anxious world combed the speech for cues as to what Nazi moves could be next expected...
From Bratislava: "I have seldom heard so much truth about the fate of the Jews as in your broadcast ... we never hear such manly words about humanity here...
From Cologne: "We do not hear Cologne as loud...
Last week, for example, German listeners could hear in German news that might not otherwise have reached their ears-that Bridget Hitler, the Führer's sister-in-law, had been arrested in London for not paying her rent; that the U. S. viewed Dr. Schacht's dismissal with alarm...
...before Stravinsky and the Viennese Atonalists had cut their modernistic teeth, a shy, bearded Yankee named Charles Ives was busy writing his own kind of modernist music. Nobody paid much attention to Composer Ives's strange, complicated scores. But little by little the few music-lovers who did hear them began to realize that Ives was neither a trickster nor a crackpot, but a writer of real, live music. Today Ives is regarded even by conservative critics as one of the most individual and authentically American of all U. S. composers. But performances of his music are still...