Word: listening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cotton Textiles. "We're gonna do this job in a goldfish bowl. We'll listen to everybody before we get through," promised General Johnson, referring to public hearings on all codes before their submission to the President for final approval. First "goldfish" to go on exhibit in the Washington bowl was the cotton textile industry. Week before a cotton textile code had been turned in to General Johnson. He thought the industry had done "a very beautiful job" even though its minimum wage fell $4.40 per week short of General Johnson's own standard and its maximum...
...nostrils of delegates representing 66 of the 67 recognizable nations of the world.† Twenty clocks warned them to make haste. Without even waiting for King George to arrive, the coal-black delegate of Haiti, gigantic, barrel-chested Constantin Mayard, broached his plan for world prosperity to whoever would listen. ''Everybody ought to drink more rum," advised Delegate Mayard, "and they ought to eat more bananas." Word that the King-Emperor was rising in the Conference lift caused 800 delegates, experts and correspondents to scramble to their feet. Stiff and silent to honor His Majesty, benign sovereign...
Unconcerned with ritual, the Church of Christ, Scientist has always put its emphasis upon reading matter. Christian Scientists listen to "readers." not preachers. All churches have "reading rooms." Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy was an ambitious stylist, curiously preoccupied with publishing and publicizing. She continually revised her extraordinary masterpiece, Science & Health, and her followers loyally purchased 57 varieties of editions between 1875 and 1907. Many of the "bylaws" which Mrs. Eddy imperiously wrote into the Manual (laws of the Mother Church) dealt with publications, such as one forbidding Christian Scientists to patronize booksellers handling works unfavorable...
When an interviewer asked Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis what piece of music he would like to listen to on his deathbed, he promptly replied: "Hymn to the Night."-the hymn written by Organist Hermann Kotzschmar, his father's friend in Portland, Me. On his deathbed at '"Lyndon," his estate near Philadelphia, last week old Mr. Curtis, who would have been 83 on June 18, heard no music. Comatose, in the last grip of a heart ailment from which he had long suffered, he did not even see at his bedside his only daughter, Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis...
...belief in advertising. Before the Satevepost earned a penny he had poured $1,000,000 into it, largely in advertising and promotion. Once he bought a full page in the New York Sun to catch the eye of a big potential advertiser in Manhattan who had refused to listen to Curtis advertising salesmen. Of patent medicine advertising, Publisher Curtis would have none, and once in the old days, when there was no money to meet the month's payrolls, he is said to have returned a check for $18,000 to a would-be advertiser of medicines. Cigaret advertising...