Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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G.O.P. Birthplace. In Oshkosh, where 400 persons left their midmorning work to listen, Willkie first warmed up. For the first time, too, his hearers warmed. He lashed at Tom Dewey, at those who think it "clever to be silent, that it is smart poli tics to manipulate the nomination." In Ripon, birthplace of the Republican party, he put the argument on a scholarly plane, in a speech acclaimed by Columnist Marquis Childs as "one of the vital docu ments in our political history. . . . Our grandchildren may be reading it in history books 50 years from...
...allowed to face a newscamera. The guestmaster may also speak (to guests) and the procurator may speak to tradesmen. Any monk can speak to the superior, but if he wishes to communicate with a brother he uses a simplified sign language. Only the abbot can read newspapers, or listen to the radio. If there is some worldly matter he thinks the brothers should know, he can tell them about it. The monks may write relations and receive occasional mail from them...
...prodigious breakfast table ever known. He is the voice beside the cracker barrel amplified to transcontinental dimensions. He is the only nonpolitical figure of record who can clear his throat each day and say, 'Now, here's what I think. . .' with the assurance that millions will listen . . . [but] in a sense he is irresponsible. No newspaper stands or falls by his words. In him . . . the newspapers have found a method of restoring their lost personal fire without possibly awkward aftermaths...
Dorothy Thompson (120 papers, circ. 7,000,000) directs "her monitorial attention to the whole world, which she evidently regards as an obtuse and disorderly place which suffers largely because it won't listen to Dorothy Thompson." Author Fisher is overwhelmed by her epic sweep-"she has never been known to be in doubt about anything." But "in most domestic affairs she never struggled much past a state of mental disorder. In her attitude toward Roosevelt . . . she began with a mild approval of plans to relieve the depression but found herself unable to agree with any which were...
They continue to listen gravely while their minister tells them of the Negro's part in the making of America. The screen fills with historical paintings and with statuary, with bits from U.S. films which record the Negro's work in U.S. industry and warfare. They nod and smile when a mother interrupts to read a letter from her boy at camp. Then the screen fills with his Army story, from the day of his induction, and with images of Negroes at work in all branches of the service...