Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House, where President Green & colleagues set forth the three great grievances of striking bituminous coal-miners-police brutality, suppression by injunction and "gigantic conspiracies" by the Interests (railroads, power companies, banks) to depress coal prices and crush union labor (TIME, Nov. 28). They asked President Coolidge to call a conference of miners and operators; and to suggest that Congress investigate police strikebreaking, injunctions, conspiracies...
President Coolidge was sympathetic but hesitant. He did not appear to have the soft coal situation at his executive fingertips. He said he would consult Secretary of Labor Davis and urged his callers to do likewise. He said he could not very well call a conference of Labor and operators without the latter signifying their willingness. He lacked authority to intervene unasked...
...Typical inscriptions: "Colorado Government Saturated With Workers' Blood," "We Want No Charity, Mr. Rockefeller, and No Machine Guns," "Mr. Rockefeller, Call Off Your Thugs...
...Farrar the Student a frequent standee at the "Met," learning the ways of Melba, Calvé, Lilli Lehmann, Jean de Reszké, learning to her greater advantage what pleased the purse-poor folk around her who scarcely missed a performance. She studied a year in Washington, was taken one afternoon to call on Mrs. McKinley. News came: DEWEY VICTORIOUS AT MANILA?and Farrar, still the Student, sat down at the piano, played and sang the "Star Spangled Banner...
...Colleges and schools at the present time frequently obtain dramatic directors who know no more about the art than the students themselves. What is worse, there is a tendency in college dramatic courses, where they exist, to call acting 'self expression'. This it most certainly is not. The one and most important task of the actor is to make himself a perfect instrument through which to express the character and feelings of others...