Word: calle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through Secretary Wallace went out a call to a carefully selected group of farm leaders to come to Washington to confer on what should be done for agriculture. The carefully selected group did not include such anti-New Dealers as Kansas' Dan Casement, who is a charter member of the Liberty League, or Iowa's Milo Reno, promoter of the "Farm Holiday." It did include Edward A. O'Neal, head of the Federal Farm Bureau Federation, a good ally of the New Deal, and representatives of the Farmers' Union (strong in the South...
...Daniel Alfred ("Call Me Dan") Poling is world president of the biggest Protestant youth organization (Christian Endeavor), editor of the most influential U. S. church magazine (Christian Herald), director of the phil anthropic Penney Foundation, a brisk weekly radiorator and ringing champion of Youth. "Dan" Poling's parents were Oregon pioneers. He came early by his robust, gladsome Christianity. Aged 11, he perched on the rear axle of William Jennings Bryan's carriage as the Commoner, stumping Oregon, drove into his county. When Bryan finished his speech he leaned beneath his carriage, shook hands with the spellbound...
...mother in a high-backed armchair, posed for their first picture together (see cut). Famed for their family loyalty, the Fisher Brothers are especially solicitous for white-haired Mrs. Margaret .Fisher. Starting with Brother Fred on Sunday, each has a special evening on which he pays her a weekly call. Last week Mrs. Fisher had a birthday. Present at a reception in Brother Lawrence's house, largest of the seven large Fisher houses, were three Fisher sisters, 60 Fisher relatives, 90 other guests. In the pillared ballroom. Mother Fisher beamed upon a six-tiered. pink-&-white birthday cake topped...
...supersecrecy of their boardroom at No. 61 Broadway, Manhattan, the directors of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. voted to retire their preferred stock at the call price of $120 per share, plus accrued dividends. Laconically the company announced it would pay off the entire issue out of its own treasury without benefit of bankers. Cash required...
Emerging from a "purely social" call on President Roosevelt one day last week, Radio Priest Charles Edward Coughlin announced to White House newshawks that he was preparing a test suit challenging the constitutionality of the Federal Reserve Act. Though the Act has survived several Supreme Court reviews in the 21 years it has been on the books, the banker-baiting Detroit priest proposed to attack it this time on the ground that Congress had illegally delegated its power over currency to private bankers...