Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wall Street Lawyer John Cye Cheasty (rhymes with hasty), 49, got a long-distance phone call from an acquaintance, Attorney Hyman Fischbach, onetime counsel for a House subcommittee investigating crime in the District of Columbia. At Fischbach's request, Cheasty flew to Washington, where Fischbach explained that Teamster Hoffa needed some "special help" in connection with the McClellan committee's investigation. Hoffa, said Fischbach, wanted to plant an agent on the McClellan committee staff and Jack Cheasty, a former Secret Service agent, Internal Revenue agent, and naval intelligence commander (he retired in 1952 with a $5,500 disability...
...Bless You." There was just one other chance. Racing into the Supreme Court clerk's office, Davis grabbed a phone, put in another call to Governor Knight, who was sitting in the Hancock's flag plot room and (charged Davis later) "taking tea." Despite the fact that there were two open radiotelephone lines aboard the ship, Davis says he got a busy signal. After arguing futilely with an adamant telephone operator, Davis phoned Knight's Capitol offices for permission to break into one of the lines. At 11:12 Goody Knight came to the phone...
...only with a large amount of trepidation that a part-time sportswriter approaches his typewriter after the season is over, and attempts to call up a few cliches to summarize the efforts of a team which has just completed three or four months of practice, meets, injuries and disappointments...
Hanford is the last surviving member of the quartet which heard Edward Harkness suddenly announce that he would give 13 million dollars to implant the House system at Harvard. He remembers how President Lowell used to call him up in the evenings to ask him to come discuss some aspect of the House blueprints with...
...President Pusey would just pick up the phone and call Griswold, the plan could be adopted tomorrow," Weiss said. Mr. Pusey and other high administration officials declined comment yesterday...