Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Governor Thomas E. Dewey with a sly "The Cat's Got His Tongue" (see cut). At the American Legion's convention last week, Front-Runner Dewey publicly endorsed universal military training, thus evoking from Legionnaire Harold E. Stassen the comment that it was nice to hear Mr. Dewey taking a stand on something...
...Never during two wars have I seen such sights as I have seen these last two days," said a middle-aged British colonel at Lahore airport. "All those atrocity yarns we used to hear, such as Germans cutting Belgian children's hands off and raping and then killing women, have suddenly come true in the Punjab during the last week...
...would try to pick out the notes on the piano. Then on St. Patrick's Day last year, she crawled up on the piano bench and played Mary Had a Little Lamb all the way through. I phoned a couple of our friends so they could hear...
...Treasury Secretary John Wesley Snyder, a rather unimaginative banker, and by Sir Wilfrid Eady, whose thin face, horn-rimmed spectacles and realistic command of facts make him the embodiment of the British civil servant. The details of the talk between them and their experts the world did not hear. But it heard much of the $3,75° million loan to Britain, and of "discrimination" and of "convertibility" (see INTERNATIONAL) . The conferees could bring about no full solution of the crisis; that was for the U.S. Congress and for Parliament, if a solution could be found. What the conferees could...
Inside the gloomy igth Century concert hall across from the royal palace, the Cabinet, all high-ranking Communists, gathered to watch the King make one of his rare public appearances and hear Prime Minister Petru Groza make one of his frequent speeches. Dutifully, the Communist clique gave Groza a resounding welcome. But it was silent when the red plush doors of the royal box flew open and the King strode in. Erect, unsmiling, he sat alone in the huge box, listened impassively as Groza took credit for the coup himself and pointedly failed to mention even once the role played...