Word: listening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...violence if their demands for economy and decent government were not satisfied. Strapping Mayor Thomas Semmes Walmsley of New Orleans declared: "I have dedicated my life to the extermination of Huey Long md all his kind from politics. I am not here to talk, but to listen to what you want me to do." "If it is necessary to teach them decency at the end of a hempen rope," cried Mayor George W. Hardy Jr. of Shreveport, "I, for one, am willing to swing the rope!" Adjourning with the angry cry that the next time they returned to the State...
...started to sing "Home on the Range." National Broadcasting Co. heard of their performance, persuaded them to sing their song over the radio, introduced them as the White House Portico Quartet.* The song and the singers got national publicity. President Roosevelt interrupted an important conference to listen to the program, afterwards telephoned the broadcasting studio and pretended to be the advertising manager of Cascarets offering a contract (TIME, May 29, 1933). "Home on the Range" has worked hard for radio since then. Kay Francis kept singing it to Edward G. Robinson in I Loved a Woman. Baritone John Charles Thomas...
...have made it clear to the debtor nations again and again . . . that each individual nation has full and free opportunity individually to discuss its problem with the United States." In short, the U. S. will listen to reason, but debtors must not try to gang up on the U. S. with threats of joint action...
...ended with a masterpiece of moderation--"extremely suspicious." Then, having made these revelations, M. Faure shortly after found himself defeated for reelection to the Chamber; he was, after all, a deputy from the Creusot district, and M. Schneider found it more convenient to bring about his defeat than to listen to more of his speeches...
...deserving of thanks. But conditions have changed; the frontier is gone and great industrial organizations have developed. The tine has come for social responsibility; but it is not now, and there never will be, a time for a complete leveling of wealth. Nor is the present a time to listen to destructive agitators like the Communist leaders of the New York taxicab strike, who, with absolutely no desire to ameliorate the lot of the drivers, sought only to make trouble for the cab operating companies. Now is the time to he as careful to preserve the things that are good...