Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigation of un-American activities Mr. Dies has brought principally a $25,000 appropriation, a willingness (common to Congressional ferrets) to hear what he believes, a succession of renegade leftists, ex-union officers and members turned talebearer, avowed spies, patriotic citizens bursting with information about the Reds. Mr. Dies also has taken testimony about U. S. Nazis and Fascists, has even accepted aspersions against such personages as Tom Girdler. But in the main he has stayed on the Red trail previously traversed by New York's Representative Hamilton Fish...
...attitude: ". . . Let a movie try to depict situations in which we are all involved now; let a movie try to wake people up to their own plight . . . ; let a movie try to present a moral, economic or political problem of today honestly and simply, and they are advised to hear nothing, say nothing, do nothing...
...Culler also pointed out last week that diabetic humans find they can hear better after a dose of insulin has reduced their blood-sugar level. He also declared that normal people hear less well after their sugar level has been raised by "a good square meal." This would indicate that, for best reception, speeches should be made before banquets instead of afterward...
...mild electric shock administered through the bars of the cage. If the animal runs the turning of the cage switches off the current, thus sparing the subject further shock. After a few experiences the dog, cat or guinea pig learns to avoid shock by running the moment it hears the musical signal. When this conditioned response is set up Dr. Culler can easily find the threshold of hearing by steadily diminishing the loudness of the signal until the animal no longer responds by running. Dogs, which hear best, have about the same acuity as human beings...
...This note of optimism is refreshing. However clearly the facts may point to continued economic nationalism, however loudly self-designated "realists" may proclaim the inevitability of war, there remains in every rational person the hope that civilization may yet be constrained from committing suicide; and it is encouraging to hear a man in public office expressing that hope...