Word: caller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harper '30 at fullback. The former is efficient behind the line on the defense and, with a little more grooming, should develop into a versatile back. Another possibility is the substitution of a passer for the quarterback, and the assignment of Captain A.E. French '29 to the signal caller's post. Whatever combination may be evolved, it will receive an excellent test under fire against the Holy Cross invaders, very strong defensive players...
...Another caller was President William Wallace Atterbury of the Pennsylvania R. R., one of the few National Committeemen who strongly opposed the Hoover nomination before it happened. Committeeman Atterbury seemed adequately Hooverized last week...
...prompt caller was Senator Charles Linza McNary of Oregon, co-author of the late McNary-Haugen bill. He wanted to let bygones be bygones, including the famed equalization fee. Not so Representative Gilbert N. Haugen of Iowa, the other half of the team. He sulked in his tent...
...Came a call, last week, for 600 more U. S. Marines to be sent to Nicaragua. The caller, Brigadier General Frank R. McCoy, is in Managua, Nicaragua, entrusted with the task of enforcing, next Fall, a fair and impartial election (TIME, May 28, et ante). He was doubtless chagrined, last week, when the Navy Department responded to his call with, in substance, the following reply...
Thomas D. Campbell of Hardin, Mont., was a welcome White House caller. He, farmer on the largest scale in the U. S., assured President Coolidge that the farm "crusade" (see p. 13) was an unjust political ruse and fiction. . . . Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow was an interesting White House caller. The President passed a whole day hearing about Mexico. He called in Secretary of State Kellogg to hear too. . . . Vice President Dawes was an entertaining White House caller. He accompanied 15 other Republican notables to a Coolidge breakfast and made great sport of small-eyed Senator Watson of Indiana for wearing...