Word: listening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...able to listen to his public utterances by radio or otherwise at the time they are made by him, and it is therefore my opinion that the people are to be denied the emotions of assurance and confidence in our Chief Executive and the future of our nation, as stimulated by President Roosevelt's well-imitated voice, by an arbitrary ruling from Washington...
Some Chinese said that Generalissimo Chiang had paid the 19th Route Army 6,000,000 Mexican silver dollars to retreat. But nobody claimed that the Nationalist executive session could do much but listen to Victor Chiang's "plans for the coming year...
...Ever in My Heart," the other picture, is a tear-jerker if ever there was one. It is worth sitting through just to listen to the chorus of snorts, sobs, and snufflings which practically shakes the female part of the audience to its foundations...
...workers whom they were paying between 35? and 40? under an NRA code were deserting to take better-paying CWA jobs. While relief officials were investigating, Georgia's Governor Talmadge charged that CWA was also hiring help away from the farm. He complained that Federal authorities would not listen to his protests. CWAdministrator Hopkins retorted: "All that guy is after is headlines. He doesn't contribute a dime but he's always yapping. Some people just can't stand to see others making a living wage." Three days later NRAdministrator Johnson leaped into the controversy...
...always trouble." At a dinner of radio manufacturers in London's Hotel Savoy. Edward of Wales prefaced a toast as follows: "Our tastes are not all alike. . . . Our moods change from time to time. One minute we may feel like a symphony orchestra, another we may possibly listen to a public speech ... or on the other hand it may be important to know what stock prices are or exactly what the dollar is doing. If the listener-in gets tired of any of these things-for example, if he gets fed up with one of my public utterances -your...