Word: listened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expressed his "congratulations and esteem" on the eve of Democratic Senator Glass's 78th birthday (see p. 47). Members felicitated dressy old James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois on his narrow escape from death from pneumonia in Moscow last autumn. There were even a good-natured few willing to listen to "The Man" Bilbo expatiate on his "Dream House" in Mississippi. With the introduction of just one bill, the Pittman Neutrality measure, the Senate decorously ended its first session. That Evening the President appeared promptly behind the lectern of the Speaker's rostrum. Police and Secret Servants had checked...
...leisurely days when the U. S. Supreme Court was housed in the Capitol basement and fashionable ladies flocked to it every afternoon to listen and admire, legalites like Henry Clay and Daniel Webster got off some of their finest flights of eloquence at its bar. Nowadays, the nine hard-pressed old men who sit on the Supreme bench have no time to listen to oratory, demand facts. Last week Forney Johnston, 56. a New Deal-hating Birmingham attorney, known for his acid courtroom flings, got a lesson which was enough to send every prospective Supreme Court pleader in the land...
This was understood by Italians as a reference to the Chamber session with every Deputy in uniform at which Premier Mussolini reacted to original British blandishments which preceded The Deal (TIME, Dec. 16), thus: "The Italian people listen to words but base their judgment upon acts!" After the acts of the British in first holding out and then withdrawing favorable terms, the Fascist Press printed last week, and most Italians believed, that the whole maneuver had been an "Eden Trap." If Italy had walked into it by accepting the terms, Italians were told, the next British move would have been...
...Samuel approached not apologetically but with a brisk question as to whether the House knew what other and spontaneous proposals for peace have in fact been made by the Emperor, the Dictator and the League. Ignorance was obvious on all sides. Many M.P.s sat up to listen as though hearing for the first time much which they might have read weeks and months ago in the Press. As if for the first time, the House seemed to learn that last autumn Haile Selassie offered to cede territory to win Peace*; that Italy has juridical claims upon British and French tolerance...
Juilliard who left $14,000,000 to music. The Metropolitan's board chairman, Paul Drennan Cravath, is a director of the Juilliard School of Music, as is Cornelius N. Bliss, chairman of the Metropolian's executive committee. Now the Opera must listen to three more Juilliard men: President John Erskine of the Juilliard School of Music, Dean Ernest Hutchinson, Lawyer John Morris Perry. Besides there is a new "management committee" to advise Edward Johnson. Its members: John Erskine, Allen Wardwell, Cornelius Bliss and Soprano Bori. Commenting on the Metropolitan situation in general, wise old William J. Henderson...