Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Paul Leach of the Chicago Daily News came a muffled crack: "He's cutting off the tail right behind the ears." The President did not hear it. In high good humor he concluded the conference, turned to his next important appointment of the day: a meeting with Business bigwigs to discuss co-operation between Government and Business (see col. 3). After hearing such an effusion of Presidential sentiments, the reporters retired amazed and mystified. Even the "death sentence" of the Holding Company Act permits first degree holding companies under certain conditions. Abolition of all holding companies would break...
...Portland, crippled onetime Singer Leonard Taylor, who has judged shows from Montreal to San Diego, had 200 birds to listen to. Until Judge Taylor was ready to hear them, the birds were kept in a darkened bedroom of Portland's Heathman Hotel, occasionally fed oily black rape seed that their voices might be mellow. By teams of four, then singly, Judge Taylor had them brought into another room, where bright light made them burst into song. If they were reticent, he shook a wooden rattle, coaxed, "Come on, boy." Listening for Rolls, Gluckes, Bells, Schokels, Flutes, and for faults...
...meeting opened at Indianapolis on December 27, they were ready with their results but it was too late to fit them into the program. Nevertheless news of what Jauncey was doing had leaked out into the scientific world and the physicists were so anxious to hear him that a special conference was arranged. Dr. Charles Thomas Zahn of the University of Michigan, who had been independently working along the same line, was summoned by telegraph, arrived, reported that he was unable to confirm the Jauncey results. Zahn, however, had used a differently arranged apparatus. Nobel Laureate Arthur Holly Compton...
Just in case some of the audience came in late, Act III takes everybody willy-nilly back again to the party in Act I. This time even the dunces in the back row can hear the irony of the Conways' hopes., The audience knows how time will cheat them, already feels a little cheated itself...
...ceaseless struggles. Men of calculation, wielding great power, performing gigantic feats of organization and administration, their history should be dramatic, colorful, tragic. And yet it has remained niggardly and dull, its tragedies without elevation, its achievements unsung. Poets have avoided its stories and businessmen themselves have not wanted to hear them. The reason, Miriam Beard believes, is that heroes in other fields have served some ideal larger than themselves, even if they served it badly, have had some goal that business, except in a few unselfish spirits, has always lacked...