Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opens for business. He has to control prices, but he has no power over wages, on the other side of the balancing economic scales. He is supposed to keep food prices down, but the law prevents him from tampering with most farm prices. With one ear he has to listen to the complaints of wage earners and housewives over rising prices; with the other, he tunes in on the desk thumps of Pentagon brass demanding special price exemptions for vast orders of critical materials, and the bleats of lobbyists, Congressmen and Senators, who are all for price control so long...
...They Dropped Me." Dunham kept diaries, instructed his secretary to listen in and make notations of each call. There were 45 calls from or about Dawson, 151 from Boyle or his office. Mostly, Boyle or his men wanted him to see some "very dear friend" on an RFC matter. And in August 1950, the Democratic Committee called about a loan for Pacific Rubber Co., a tire company "wholly or partly owned" by President Truman's good friend Edwin W. Pauley. Mr. Dunham gave it-"I don't like to use the word special"-consideration because "we were anxious...
...organized labor's main target was General Electric's ex-President Wilson. The bosses denounced Wilson for his "arrogant seizure of control over manpower," for "his equally arrogant refusal" to listen to labor's pleas. They wanted manpower controls under their always accommodating friend, Labor Secretary Tobin. They charged that no American "may feel safe that the big business clique in control of the [Office of Defense Mobilization] may not suddenly seek to achieve a compulsory draft of the nation's workers...
...Angeles' post office building, a thin, bright-eyed 17-year-old talked excitedly into the phone: "Gee, Mom, you shoulda seen it. Gangsters and crooks everywhere. They were telling Mr. Kefauver about murders and losing millions of dollars gambling. It was just like the movies . . . Just listen, Mom, the Senator's coming past right...
Richard Rodgers' music is pleasant, but there is surprisingly little of it, and only two songs are outstanding--"I Whistle a Happy Tune" and "Let's Dance." Although the score isn't anywhere near Rodgers' best, it is easy to listen to. On the other hand, Oscar Hammerstein's book is not always easy to listen to. Anyone who has watched Hammerstein's tendency toward quasi-profound sentimentality and gratutitous moralizing will not be surprised at the failings of "The King and I." Occasional bright and witty scenes are not enough to overcome the humorlessness of most of the dialogue...