Word: callers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harry Newman, former Michigan All-American quarterback and All-Professional signal caller, is the bright light in the ranks of the Giants...
...Camels). After Yale (1915) and the War (Navy), "Johnny" Hanes went north to Wall Street. He is largely responsible for the fact that Chas. D. Barney & Co. today is regarded the leading authority on tobacco stocks. A big Reynolds' stockholder, he is reputed to glower terrifyingly at any office caller who dares pull out any other cigaret than Camels...
...story of 15 hectic months in Washington many people have their exits and their entrances and most in their time play many parts. Senator Carter Glass "in a class by himself," is cast as hero. Professor Moley plays clown. General Hugh Johnson undertakes a comic Falstaffian role, "chief name caller" of the Administration, roaring about "tom-tom beaters," "witch dancers," "hobgoblin seers," "chiselers," "social Neanderthalers," threatening to "crack down" while NRA goes to pieces under him. Professor Tugwell is the chief antagonist, marshal of the forces seeking a socialistic state. He is a respected enemy until, during the farce...
First choice for Commission chairman is James McCauley Landis, 34, Federal Trade Commissioner whom President Roosevelt appointed last autumn. Commissioner Landis is a frequent and welcome caller at the White House because he sees eye to eye with the President on rigid control of the entire securities business. He never let the Exchange Bill out of his sight from the time it was being drafted until it was safely past the conference committee. Lean, serious, energetic and extremely able, he was a full professor at the Harvard Law School at 29. A shining disciple of Justice Brandeis, he is regarded...
...caller was Col. Clarence Marshall Young, onetime (1929-33) Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, now working temporarily for Tycoon Henry Latham Doherty as aviation chairman of his Florida Year-Round Clubs. Flying from Florida to New York last week he paused in Washington long enough to go to the bustling Department of Commerce building and shake hands with his successor, Eugene Luther Vidal...