Word: listening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congressmen had grown to dislike Secretary Ickes because he would not listen to their pleas for political patronage or for "pork" from the $3,300,000,000 Public Works fund he administers. To save time he would receive Congressional callers at his office in batches, require them to come up to his desk and whisper their requests. Senator Sheppard of Texas once had to wait eight days to get a private appointment. So intense was the feeling against Secretary Ickes at the Capitol last week that House Democrats refused to vote an additional $4,000,000,000 for public works...
...Catholics who read or listen, even by radio, to anything attacking "dogma and morality...
Looks like the nine old men have got the New Dealers on the run. Listen to Attorney-General Cummings, talk to the Court: "We do not suggest that it was with any glad heart that we intervened in any contractual obligations. It was done only as a matter of supreme necessity." He was referring, of course, to the repeal of the gold clause on contracts made previous to the repeal resolution. Although there is no specific clause in the Constitution which forbids Congress to impair the obligation of contract (Article one, section ten prohibits state governments...
...egomaniac boss, attempted to walk it, was brought back with sunstroke and a change of heart. The salesman and the widow discovered they were affinities, the girl chums that they were Lesbians, the lovers that they were mismated. Seduced by a pretty Spanish girl, John decided to stay and listen to the nightingales. The strike over, the arresting semicolon lifted, the travellers went on, to finish their sentences in a new direction. Sadder and supposedly wiser, Julian and the jilted bride bore each other company to Corunna, brave but bereft. The Author looks like a British Richard Halliburton. An Oxonian...
Among the musical selections are a Bach chorale. "Break Forth. O Beauteous Heavenly Light." numerous carols, including "The First Noel," and "Listen Lordings," by Osgood, an organ prelude. "Now Thank We All Our God," by Karg-Elert, and a postlude. "The Hallelujah Chorus," from Handel's "Messiah...