Word: callers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a wildlife enthusiast had waited days in an outer office to see U. S. Biological Survey Chief Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, the caller brought out a wild turkey call, sounded it long & loud. Out from his inner sanctum sprang Chief Darling. "I was exceedingly busy," he explained. "But when that turkey call sounded it was too much...
Four summers ago Harvey Crowley Couch, public utilitarian and champion hog-caller of Pine Bluff, Ark. chanted that remedy for rural Depression up & down the land. Last week at Prattsville (pop.: 114) he summoned a meeting of farmers and their wives to announce a far-flung scheme for bringing electricity into 15,000 isolated Arkansas farm homes. He proposed that his company, Arkansas Power & Light, invest about $600 per home in transmission lines and equipment, while each farmer was to put $200 into lamps, irons, washing machines, water pumps. How were the farmers to raise the money? Why, said...
...notable caller upon the President last week was Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, obstetrician to the Dionne quintuplets. Said the country doctor on emerging: "All he asked about was those five little babies of mine...
...been more important than business itself. By last week, however, the state of sentiment had so improved that businessmen were once more concerned with the state of trade. They had pondered the President's reassuring fireside talk; they knew that Big Business was again a welcome White House caller; they read a lot about the Roosevelt "truce" with industry and banking. And if there was still any doubt about the Administration's mellowing attitude, it should have been dismissed by the haste with which the President and his lieutenants shot down the little inflation balloon which hovered over...
Last week the Presbytery of New Brunswick, N. J. started ouster proceedings against peppery Dr. John Gresham Machen, bellwether and chief name-caller of the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. Having declined to resign from the Board in accordance with the resolution his church passed against it (TIME, June 4, et seq.), Dr. Machen will presumably be brought to trial by the Presbytery, which last week appointed a committee to study the case. In the same situation was Dr. James Oliver Buswell Jr. of the Chicago Presbytery. He was asked to resign or undergo a trial which "would involve...