Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout Truman's stay, Harriman supporters marched in and out of his Carlyle Hotel suite. No working Stevenson backer came to call. Sam Rosenman had breakfast with Harriman and Truman, escorted Truman to a meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations, closed out the day with Harry and Bess Truman at "21." When New York Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff (George Backer's exwife) asked Truman about Stevenson's chances, she got a meaningful reply. Reported Publisher Schiff: "Mr. Truman pointed out that a once-defeated presidential candidate has never won in American history except in the strange...
...Catholic church burns down and a non-Catholic congregation offers its hall for Sunday Mass (which many well-meaning non-Catholics in our land would readily do) it would be the best policy to decline the invitation, since in that way no obligations would be undertaken that might call for a similar service if the situation were reversed...
...South," he told his congregation last February, "and at the same time overlook social irresponsibility and stark prejudice right under our very noses . . . What does your experience of God say? Shall we continue to segregate ourselves into white churches in Boston? If we do, can we still call ourselves Christians and followers of Jesus ?" Pastor Hale announced his intention to hire a Negro minister to replace the minister to students, who was leaving to take a parish...
...woman vocalist is one of the music trade's most valuable properties. The smaller labels, long envious of the majors' near-monopoly of tried-and-true stars, have been scouring the boondocks of musicmaking, in a search for new talent they can call their own. Result: the biggest crop of new names in years. So far, none of their finds is likely to jeopardize the record sales of such old reliables as Jo Stafford and Dinah Shore, but some are well worth a listen. Bethlehem puts its money on Helen Carr (Why Do I Love You) and Terry...
...half of them building, half of them producing the materials and services needed. It also predicted that by 1960 road construction will reach $8 to $9 billion a year (1956 level: about $5.1 billion). Projecting estimates of the American Road Builders' Association, an $8 billion year will call for the following amounts of basic materials for roadbuilding...