Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Illinois, a 600-member La Salle local, long at odds with its parent union, issued a call for the resignations of Brewster, Beck and four other top Teamsters and urged that the international union be placed under trusteeship. A Toronto local flatly rejected Dave Beck's requests for financial aid for conducting the legal defenses of Teamster leaders. Chain letters were circulating in Los Angeles advising Teamster members to withhold their union dues. Brooding about the hundreds of thousands of dollars Teamster leaders had admitted "borrowing" from the union, a Los Angeles truck driver grumbled...
...Trinity Methodist Church. To honor the anniversary, Policeman Walts invited his minister to ride with him on a routine inspection of the countryside. Then, at 1:15 p.m., as they cruised along U.S. Highway 31-E - the main road between Indianapolis and nearby Louisville-there came a call that summoned Policeman Walts to death, and the Rev. Mr. Gingery to the most grinding crisis of his life...
...last lap of a strenuous 17-nation serenade through Asia, Metropolitan Opera Soprano Eleanor Steber put into Hong Kong, allowed: "You can now call me a primitive donna!" In her travels about the Orient, West Virginia-born Singer Steber, 40, a recent divorceée, had also observed some exotic marriage customs, including the blissful servitude of Oriental wives. Said she: "I now see why American women lose their husbands. The Asians sure know how to hold on to theirs. Marriage in the United States today is a highly unsatisfactory business, and American women are to blame...
However, the new six-month program may change this situation radically. The draft call appears to be stabilizing at the rate of about 170,000 men per year--approximately 13,000 per month--and in all probability it will remain at this level until 1959 or 1960. However, the Army also intends to build up its reserve force over the next two years...
...probably develop into a fairly serious thing for college students during the next two or three years. There are only about 18,000 eligible 1-A's left in the 23-25 age group at present, and therefore the burden of this year's expected 180,000-man draft call will fall on the 22-year olds...