Word: calle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immemorial custom each autumn when the U. S. Supreme Court assembles, for the Justices, as part of their first day's work to pay a formal call on the President. This year the Court convened on Oct. 7 but the call had to be postponed because Franklin Roosevelt, aboard the U. S. S. Houston, was then somewhere near the Cocos Islands. Month ago, when the President returned to the Capital, he was very busy and since the call had been postponed the Justices had no objection to letting it go to a time that suited the President...
Well satisfied on the whole with Ethiopia's brightest war week thus far, Emperor Haile Selassie, whom the knitting and poker-playing correspondents now call "Little Charlie" among themselves, flew to Harar on the Southern Front...
...shoot an Egyptian boy in the abdomen and gravely wound four others. Russell Pasha then changed his tactics. Police began firing charges of small buckshot directly into massed Cairo demonstrators. Correspondents, surprised to see how spunkily Egyptian girl students stood up to this kind of treatment, decided to call on 70-year-old Mme Said Zaghlul...
With 1,000,000 Italians under arms, of whom some 300,000 are in Ethiopia, Dictator Mussolini announced that "to fight the Sanctions Siege in the economic trenches" furloughs of three months will be given to 100,000 soldiers. These will return to their farm or city jobs, on call at 24 hours notice to spring back to arms...
Miss Holmes has done commendable work as the tercentenary historian of the school which dandled Harvard College on its knee. There are some omissions, however, which call for notice here. One fails to see any mention of Sir Thomas Downing, for whom Downing-street is named; tradition, at any rate, has always associated his name with the Latin School. It is a curious fact, which one may offer for what it is worth, that although the Latin School has graduated many men more distinguished than most presidents, it has never produced a President of the United States...