Word: calle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conspicuous Exception Sirs: Permit me to call to your attention an error in TIME, Jan. 6, which does serious injustice to The Times (London). On p. 34 TIME has picture of Jon Lindbergh under which is printed "The London Times spread him over two columns." Again, on p. 38 TIME says, "Across two columns on the main news page of its Sunday edition that most stiff-necked of the world's newspapers, The London Times, spread the photograph of Jon Lindbergh." Now, The Times (London), so far from having printed, or "spread," any picture of Jon Lindbergh, has been...
...years ago: " 'The human race now passes through one of its great crises. However memory brings back this moment to your minds, let it be able to say to you: That was a great moment. It was the beginning of a new era. . . . This world in its crisis called for volunteers, for men of faith in life, of patience in service, of charity and of insight. I responded to the call however I could. I volunteered to give myself to my Master-the cause of humane and brave living. I studied. I loved. I labored, unsparingly and hopefully...
...pink carnation in his lapel, whammed down his gavel, brought 366 magpie Members of the House to comparatively silent order. Democratic Floor Leader William Brockman ("Tallulah's Father") Bankhead, ill throughout the last session, uprose to request unanimous consent for the House to recess subject to the call of the Speaker so that President Roosevelt might deliver his address on the State of the Union to a joint session of Congress that night. That address was also to be broadcast at the best radio hour...
...Haile Selassie. Italian aviators knew they were there, for only that morning copies of // Messaggero of Rome reached Stockholm, containing a paragraph from Italian Somaliland saying that Italian aviators flying over the southern front had seen people on the ground near hospital tents waving Swedish flags to call attention to their position. Yet last week a squadron of Italian planes circled over the Ethiopian camp to which the Swedish hospital unit was attached. After dropping leaflets, the flyers made straight for the Red Cross station itself, bombs falling, machine guns spitting. All nine Swedes attached to the hospital were killed...
Whatever gems "Tony" cut last week, he has 61 chances this week to cut more, as the 61 foreign representatives accredited to the Court of St. James's call to pay their respects. The Iranian envoy was all primed to hear clever, young Mr. Eden speak Iranian (Farssi), a tongue with which the new Foreign Secretary sometimes amuses pretty ladies at parties...