Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another breath last week when National Republican Committeeman Charles Dewey Hilles of New York stepped out of President Coolidge's study one day and said: "Mr. Coolidge will be voted for in the Kansas City convention whether he is placed in nomination or not." President Coolidge did not call Mr. Hilles back to reprove him, nor was any quietus put upon the transparent ballyhoo in Chicago, the immediate purpose of which was to strengthen a State ticket frogged up by Mayor Thompson and his discredited comrade-in-expediency, Governor Lennington Small...
American Telephone & Telegraph Co. ("Longest station to station call within the U. S. now costs $10; San Francisco, Calif. to Eastport, Me.")-$166,000,000. Previous year...
...Sullivan '27, former coxswain of the University crew. There was a stiff breeze, and an occasional cake of ice floated down upon the Leviathan, but the oarsmen encountered no major difficulties. The Freshmen have been working on the tank in Newell Boat House since February 6, when the call for candidates was sounded...
Curtis seldom takes the floor in Congress, and then chiefly to make a point of order, remind his colleagues that they have strayed far from the matter theoretically under discussion, call for a vote, or move an adjournment. His legislative efforts, if they can be called legislative efforts, are chiefly of a domestic nature. In the last session of Congress he introduced seventy-six bills. Sixty-nine of them were pension bills. Five were bills to settle private claims. One was a bill to provide an Indian memorial at Medicine Lodge, Kansas. And the other was a bill to create...
...young at sixty-seven, stockily built, sturdy, with more spring to his step than most men half his age, and reported by one of the most competent newspaper men in Washington to be the best poker player in either House of Congress. He is everybody's friend. His colleagues call him Charlie. His constituents swear by him as they would swear by a trusted Ford or a well-tried almanac. He knows an amazing number of them personally. Twenty years ago this month, when he had already served fourteen years in Congress, he was quoted in the New York...