Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when I find it naming, among callers on the President, "Chief Justice Howard Taft of the U. S. Supreme Court, with the eight associate justices," when, of course, Chief Justice Taft's name is "William Howard" and when, as TIME must have known, Associate Justice Sutherland did not call with the rest? The truth lies in fine distinctions and from TIME I want nothing but the truth...
...TIME'S proofreaders a thoroughgoing reprimand for omitting Mr. Chief Justice Taft's first name. To TIME'S Washington writer a reprimand for including Mr. Associate Justice Sutherland in the Supreme Court's formal call at the White House without counting noses to be sure that all nine members were there...
...President having signified his willingness to receive them, President Manuel Quezon of the Philippine Senate and his fellow zealot for Philippine independence, Senator Sergio Osmena, started from Manila with an entourage to call at the White House. ( President & Mrs. Coolidge quietly celebrated their 22nd wedding anniversary. Perhaps they read in the current issue of the ever-embattled Nation the following tirade about their 21-year-old son: "Who is John Coolidge? To what public office has he ever been elected or appointed? All we know about John is that he is a student in Amherst College and happens...
...herself in laugh-getting colloquialisms. Mrs. William Brown Meloney of the New York Herald Tribune, "first woman reporter in the Senate gallery,"was allotted four minutes to relate the evolution of the female journalist, but she spoke so quietly, so modestly, that the chairwoman (Mrs. Oliver Harriman) had to call loudly for order before two of the minutes had passed...
...call of any bird...