Word: callers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Perkins answered a telephone call, heard a voice say: "This is Frank. May I talk to Miss Perkins?'' Said the assistant to Secretary Perkins: "It's Frank." Replied she: "Frank? I don't know any Frank. Ask him whom he's with." Questioned, the caller burst into a laugh, explained: "With the United States. This is the President...
...tall, strapping young man in double-breasted suit and soft grey shirt strode from one Department of Commerce conference room to another last week like a chess champion playing five games at once. Secretaries waylaid him. Callers with briefcases plucked at his sleeve. At sight of a new caller the young man's wide mouth widened into a grin. The visitor was also tall, bronzed, handsome. From under his snap-brim hat he regarded his host quizzically as he asked: "How goes it, Gene...
...little fishing village named Santona, were accosted by an officer who had never heard Colonel Lindbergh's name. A local tycoon named Jose Alvo took them into his house, importantly answered telephone calls from London and Paris trying to trace their whereabouts. Senor Alvo informed one caller: "Yes. Senor Lindbergh is here. He is taking a bath." Two days later, when fog forced them down again on the Minho River, they spent the night in their plane. Spanish sailors and Portuguese fishermen had to dredge the river's shallow, rocky bed before they could take off. Arriving...
...When seven members of a sect caller! Bible Researchers at Lichtenstein refused to vote and distributed handbills on Germany's election day reading "Jesus Is Our Leader," police took it as a snub to Leader Hitler, arrested all seven...
...Most notable caller expected at the White House this week was Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, Russia's rolly-polly Foreign Commissar, who last week arrived...