Word: listening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggested that he broadcast his thoughts. On a Sunday afternoon three weeks later, Charles Lindbergh urgently telephoned Commentator Lewis, asked whether the offer of radio time was still good. It was, said Mr. Lewis. Hero Lindbergh then drafted a speech. His wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer of repute (Listen! The Wind, North to the Orient), smoothed out the draft, typed the finished version, left on it the hallmark of her husband's direct simplicity...
...there are few, if any, observable differences, in other respects than earning power alone, between the graduates and non-graduates and between those who in college were known as 'good' students . . . and those who were known as 'poor' students. . . . They are culturally much alike: they listen to the same radio programs, read the same magazines, go to the same movies, feel much the same about their jobs and their families and their health, carry on the same and for the most part spectator types of recreations, and almost uniformly find democratic participation in social and civic...
...they could not resist the chance to take a sideswipe at radio. Wrote the Chicago Tribune: "Radio permits direct connection with virtually every European nation. The official liars will be as busy as they were a quarter of a century ago . . . but this time we will be able to listen to both liars and compare their claims...
Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, one-time tub-thumper for companionate marriage and a Superior Court Justice in Los Angeles, called a halt to a psychopathic hearing in his crowded courtroom, snapped on the radio, announced: "This court will now listen to the greatest madman in the world," tuned in on a rebroadcast of Hitler's Reichstag speech for one-half hour...
...Army's work in Canada, whom Bramwell Booth demoted a year before he was deposed, was elected the Army's fifth General. No autocrat, General Carpenter promised to appoint a council of advisers. Said he: "If I ever get to the stage of refusing to listen to advice I hope the Army will ask me to retire-and will see to it that...