Word: listening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chairman Robert L. Doughton last week kept the members of his House Ways & Means Committee with their ears to the grindstone. Their job was to listen strenuously, so that no one could complain that he had been denied a hearing on the New Deal's plan to rearrange corporation taxes in order to encourage the declaration of dividends (TiME, March...
Seldom has genial M. Huber received a chillier welcome. Italian troops seemed definitely to have the Ethiopians on the run (see above). The Italian Press had pulled out every stop to make the most of the victory. This was no time to listen to complaints about bombing ambulances and Red Cross hospitals. Weasled Il Duce...
...utterance made in 1917, when reporters understood him to say the Last Trump was at hand. "Let me say that Jesus is not coming in 1936 or 1937 or 1938 or 1939 or 1940 or 1941,:'' Premier Aberhart firmly told newshawks. "Have you got that clear? . . . Now listen carefully. Seven years before the coming of Christ, the raptures shall take place. This will be when the Lord appears in the clouds. The raptures have not taken place...
...Boston's North and South Railroad Stations, in Manhattan's Grand Central Station, commuters and loafers had paused to listen to Federal band music. Pittsburgh had a 22-piece gypsy orchestra, Chicago a Hungarian ensemble, San Antonio and Tucson tipica orchestras. Dr. John J. Becker had his Horn Concerto played in Boston, Bendetson Netzorg his The Bhalahu in Detroit. WPA musicians will take part this spring in a series of Manhattan concerts showing the history of U. S. music, in a Virginia State Music Festival, in a New Jersey Beethoven Cycle, in a May festival in St. Paul...
...listen to the holy mutter of the Mass And see God made and eaten every...