Word: calle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leave stranded the rotund, frog-eyed school principal and radiorating lay preacher William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart who won Alberta's last election and its Premiership by promising $25 per month in Social Credit to every bona fide citizen of the province. Premier Aberhart, whose detractors now derisively call him "Abie," spent the week getting off to Major Douglas pious cablegrams urging him to reconsider...
...these brilliant youngsters the outstanding pair are Japan's Acting Foreign Minister of last week, Mr. Koki Hirota, and his equally cocky friend and protege, Mr. Hirosi Saito, Japanese Ambassador in Washington. Old Saionji in his infinitely ripe wisdom next advised the Son of Heaven to call young Hirota...
...replied: "It would be ridiculous to try for a speed record at this time of year, when it is so warm and muggy. I was just walking for the exercise." From Newport to Boston (73 mi.) her best time was 17 hours. In 1934 she walked 35 miles to call on a friend. Month later, dressed as a Girl Scout, she walked 23 miles to see another. When out for a walk Miss Sears is usually followed by her chauffeur, with Thermos bottle & sandwiches...
...System carries nearly 20% of U. S. passengers. It operates in densely populated U. S. areas, with its New York-to-Washington mileage probably representing the heaviest non-commuting traffic in the country. New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago and St. Louis are among its ports of call. It has a heavy Pullman traffic from New York to Chicago and is a great connecting road for traffic bound from New York to the South. Furthermore, its Long Island rail-road alone carried more than 79,000,000 passengers...
...days later, a committee of strikers retired to a Long Beach, Calif, butcher shop, put in a call to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins in Washington. Though she was at a formal Cabinet dinner for President Roosevelt, she went at once to a telephone booth in her evening gown, began to argue. Hour later, the strikers agreed to return to the California, await negotiation of their case in Manhattan. Said Madam Secretary Perkins next day: "You can imagine what I looked like when I walked out of that telephone booth...