Word: calle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Liveliest White House anecdote of the week, which, whether or not true, circulated briskly in Washington last week, concerned fiery General Hugh S. Johnson, whose columns in Scripps-Howard papers have lately been devoted almost exclusively to flaying the Administration. Its substance: Called into Franklin Roosevelt's office, General Johnson found half-a-dozen of his recent columns spread on the President's desk. Said the President (underlining sentences in the columns) : "Hugh, that's a lie ... that's a lie ... that's a lie. . . ." Said General Johnson: "Mr. President, you are the only...
...continue his harmonious and efficient drive to put through final legislation. To Vice President Garner's desk he sent a memorandum outlining the order in which bills were to be considered. After disposal of a bill for peacetime exports of helium, Senator King was to be recognized to call up the District of Columbia Airport Bill. The Helium Bill was passed as Senator King sat near Leader Barkley. He rustled his papers and prepared to get up with the Airport Bill but was slow on his feet. New York's Senator Robert Wagner rose and said: "Mr. President...
...year and net annual income of $20,000, reported that in the North things are somewhat better. Successful Negro lawyers can average about $5,000 a year. With a broad grin, Lawyer Alexander told how he delighted to go South on a case and force white lawyers to call him "Mr." "They'll gladly call you Professor, Colonel, or Doctor, but Mister sticks...
...patient through the bronze doors, a girl clerk registers the name, address, profession and the name of the personal physician, if any, who sent him. The patient then gets a number and a brown envelope to hold the reports of the diagnoses which he will undergo. An illuminated, numbered call board notifies him in what room and at what instant a Mayo diagnostician will be ready for him. Another system of illuminated call boards notifies every Mayo diagnostician when and where patients are waiting. An interlocking lighting system notifies a central desk of everybody's whereabouts...
...public reaction probably will be terrible," said Undersheriff Ervin Coling of Racine, Wis. Undersheriff Coling is what motorists call a "tough cop."† Last week he was going ahead with plans to stop passing cars, subject their drivers to quizzes on traffic law. Undersheriff Coling was undismayed by the possibility that motor clubs would route their clients around Racine County. Said he: "I'd be tickled pink if they would." He was also sure that Wisconsin law would back him up: "If anyone doubts the legal ability of a deputy to stop a car, let him keep on going...