Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will do the real work in the convention are the professional politicos : national committeemen, congressional bigshots, state and city bosses. The ordinary delegate will have little to do but enjoy himself, politick like mad-and vote as he's told. For the first two days he will hear hours of party-line oratory, approve committee reports and the party platform, wander wearily off for a drink...
After a few years in Washington, most politicians can detect the faint hiss of escaping gossip the way bird dogs can hear whistles pitched too high for the human ear. Last week, as Harry Truman set out on his 17-day tour of the West, hundreds of the initiated swore they could hear tongues wagging across the capital in salvos like a 21-gun salute. The reason: three days before starting out, the President had notified Democratic National Committee Chairman J. Howard McGrath (who had planned the trip) that he and his professional politicos could not come along...
...early response was fairly encouraging. A thousand people gathered near the tracks to hear him at Crestline, Ohio; at Fort Wayne, Ind., 3,000 turned out. He was respectfully received-although at Gary, Ind., a woman in a floppy hat shouted: "Hello,. Harry. I'm from Independence. I knowed you when you worked for Pendergast." In Chicago, 100,000 lined the streets to watch him ride from the train to the Palmer House. But what the political doctors had ordered was a roaring ovation-and Harry Truman got only a spattering of hand-claps...
...James F. Byrnes told Aiken County, S.C. high-school graduates that the phrase "you-all" was good English-if it is used as Southerners use it, in the plural. Said Byrnes: "There is nothing which irritates me quite so much as to attend the theater in New York and hear an actor . . . impersonate a Southerner and, in addressing an individual...
...although the traditional basis has been more or less the same, the tone of the festivities has varied greatly. A chronicle tells us that for the first exercises "nine Bachelours, the Governour, the Magistrates, and Ministers from all parts, with all sorts of scholars were present, and did hear their exercises. Then having dined together in Commons, they sang a Psalm and were well content." This note of austerity was lost toward the end of the Seventeenth Century, as the Harvard Commencement Day became a general State holiday...