Word: called
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...movement is now afoot in the South-west to call the structure Hoover...
...four U. S. members of the Reparations Commission-Owen D. Young, John Pierpont Morgan, Thomas William Lament, Thomas Nelson Perkins-to inform their government what, as private citizens, they had accomplished at Paris. First they drove up to the Department of State in a taxicab, went in to call upon Secretary Stimson. After a long wait their taxi-driver grew impatient, suspected his four fares of stealing away to escape the metre charge, went in and told a guard they were "dead beats." Emerging after two hours, the four Reparation Commissioners crossed the street to the White House to lunch...
...Sutter pamphlet was labeled: How shall we teach the Eighteenth Amendment? The Government's message to you. It began: "You realize a great difference for what . . . we will call 'temperance' teaching. . . . The Government needs the help and cooperation of every teacher from Maine to California ... in developing a consciousness of the proper attitude toward this...
...More to show the honor in which the Crown is held, as well as to conform to usage and tradition, they [those who attend the court] decked themselves in accustomed garb. Shall any call them sycophants or mountebanks? Not at all. . . . We do not confuse dependence with courtesy, or underrate the value of continued custom...
...Rockefeller's usual remark about writings like this book, is: "If I step on that worm I will call attention to it. If I ignore it, it will disappear...