Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Nye's predecessor as chairman of the investigating committee, had told him how, when the Oil Scandal had just broken four years ago, Will H. Hays asked Senator Ladd to meet him at the White House and then, during a taxi ride, tried to persuade him to "call off" the inquiry. Senator Ladd refused...
...State for India. Patently Lord Birkenhead does not want to impair his chances of perhaps someday becoming Prime Minister by again withdrawing from the hot arena of politics to the lofty precincts of the Lord High Chancellor. Therefore, last week, His Majesty was "advised" by the Baldwin Cabinet to call to the Lord High Chancellorship another "sound lawyer," Attorney General Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg. But Sir Douglas is much more than a sound lawyer with a greater legal earning power than any Britisher except Sir John Simon...
INTERFERENCE-Poisoning politely performed among people who would call a murderer a cad (TIME...
...Very seldom does Mussolini need to call for the file of any state business which he previously had studied. 'Without good memory it is impossible to govern,' is one of his sayings...
Life in the diplomatic ranks as it would be if young men and young ladies (or shall we call them women") had their way Obviously fantasy, but quite amusing nevertheless...