Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paul, Frank Meyers, who as a successful horse trader has banked more than $250,000, gave his reason for becoming a cab driver at 62: "I like to meet people and hear their troubles...
...rnberg, Willy Messerschmitt, of the Messerschmitts, who was also awaiting denazification proceedings, said he had "received an offer from the Americans" to come on over and help develop an atomic-energy-propelled airplane. He was thinking it over, said he, waiting to hear more...
...flag in the Tribune lobby. When a deskman suggested that defacing the flag might be illegal, the Colonel had him call the Tribune's attorneys, and stood by for their ruling. Out of the receiver came the lawyer's anguished squawk, loud enough for the Colonel to hear: "Now who in hell wants to cut a star out of the flag...
...walnut-paneled 24th floor office, guarded by two secretaries and one of the Trib's 45 pistol-packing cops, the daily schedule ticks off with military precision. First come Leon Stolz with his squad of editorial writers, and Carey Orr with his crew of highly skilled cartoonists, to hear the orders of the day. The discussion often goes into luncheon at the 19th floor Overset Club, the executives' dining room...
...Banned, Not Played. He made one speech, to the International Congress of Composers, but anyone who expected to hear new theories or techniques was disappointed. Blinking myopically under the klieg lights, he read a dull account of the bureaucratic organization of Soviet music, not once mentioning himself. At the end, someone asked: "Is your opera Lady Macbeth of Mzensk banned in Russia?" Said Shostakovich quietly: "It is not banned-it is simply not played." There was an embarrassed silence; considering the blast directed at Lady Macbeth by Soviet ideologists eleven years ago ("Screaming, neurotic music"), it was hardly a nice...