Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...among the peers. I want to hear the gavel ring, to hear...
When he left Peking in June, Mao went first to Shanghai, a city he detests, to hear Shanghai's scientists, educators, writers and businessmen air their protests. The counter-rectification campaign had become so virulent that old favorites of Mao like Poetess Ting Ling (TIME, Aug. 19) have been threatened with expulsion from the party. Moscow-trained Party Theoretician Liu Shao-chi, often regarded as No. 2 man in the hierarchy of Chinese Communism, was reportedly opposed to Mao's doctrine of letting all flowers bloom when it was first enunciated last year; so, apparently, was Premier Chou...
...this is treatment which Neapolitans thought was reserved for strangers. Naples was shocked to the core last week to hear that Neapolitans had been doing something like this to each other-and in city hall, at that. On a muggy 99° evening, thousands swarmed about the 700-year-old hall shouting, "Clean up the mess!" Cops broke it up by arresting 30 of the demonstrators. Inside, Mayor Achille Lauro, millionaire shipowner and leader of the Popular Monarchist Party, insisted, "Our hands are clean, because we don't have to soil ourselves by stealing public money." No one accused...
...they were people of taste he knew that they would be pleased with Bassano's work. When Bassano's reputation as an animal painter was growing, a client of Tintoretto, in an argument over a portrait of himself, threatened to fly into a "beastly rage," only to hear Tintoretto placidly say, "Go to Jacopo. He is an excellent painter of beasts. He will do a wonderful portrait...
...idyl ended when the family moved to New York, and Bernie huddled with his brothers against the apartment chimney in the raw Northern winter and felt the first stings of anti-Semitism in neighborhood street fights. He dreamed of going to Yale, but Mamma Baruch would not hear of his leaving home, so he trudged 40 blocks a day each way to New York's City College. Ever mindful of the phrenologist's prophecy, his mother steered him toward the business world, and after his graduation in 1891 he found himself in Wall Street...