Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this country the plan would calm the populace considerably. Take John L. Lewis, for instance. . . . How easy it would be, if we had a king, to knight Lewis. . . . Sir Jonathan Llewellyn Lewisse of Coalhod-on-Cumberland. Isn't it magic? . . . Not a coal miner will listen to him. [Or] a businessman that got obstreperous. . . . You can see him now: Lord Henry Fordson, Earl of V-8-on-Highway...
...Department employe, Martha Wilkerson acts as a sort of counterirritant to "Tokyo Rose." Servicemen who listen regularly to both programs assure Jill that hers is superior. For one thing, Rose's records are mostly old and scratchy. But the explanation may be more basic. The fair flower of Tokyo exerts herself mightily to make U.S. servicemen homesick; G.I. Jill's trick is to make them feel at home...
...solemn meeting of the nation's wartime leaders. The President was flanked by General George Marshall, Fleet Admiral Ernest King, Home Front Czar James Byrnes. Top men of the House and Senate military affairs committees had been called in to listen. At that meeting, held at the White House one day last week, Franklin Roosevelt once again asked for a national service...
Most of these changes will not take effect until the war is over, and manufacture of civilian radio and television equipment can be resumed. FCC wanted manufacturers, station owners and gadget buyers to know well in advance where they stand, so they can plan accordingly. The Commission will listen to objections to its air-rationing plan, beginning on St. Valentine...
...know that it's been a harrowing week. If you don't believe it just listen to the walling which the Pearsons will do in their next column. But there have been lighter sides to life too, since the Board and its long black shadows haven't darkened everyone's path all the week...