Word: callings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...failed to see the President on the first day of his arrival at Rapid City, because the President was visiting a Government Indian school (where he asked the Superintendent if the little Indian girls did not get homesick sometimes). The next day, however, the Senator asked the President to call on some of the South Dakotan cities in the eastern part of the state and the President took the invitation under consideration...
Thus it appeared that the entire Elk Hills business would be dredged up again and that the familiar "little brown bag" in which Edward L. Doheny Jr. took to Mr. Fall the $100,000 which Mr. Doheny calls a loan and Government attorneys call a bribe would once more be inspected by a jury. Shocked, irate, lawyers for the defendants protested that Messrs. Fall and Doheny were being tried twice for the same offense. They argued that U. S. Justice had come to a lamentable state when the Government, having failed to get a conviction for conspiracy, could change...
Elections. Delaware dramatically surrendered her early place in the roll call to Virginia; and Miss Cornelia S. Adair, junior-high-school teacher of Richmond, Va., who was already president of the National League of Classroom Teachers and a vice president of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women,* was put in nomination for the N. E. A. presidency. None was named to oppose her. After the unanimous vote was cast, Miss Adair said: "It surely is mighty nice of you all." All other N. E. A. officers were reelected, Retiring-President Blair becoming a vice president...
Sirs: TIME has been on my list of magazines ever since I got the first copy several years ago. I do not like it to print misleading statements so call attention to TIME, June 20, p. 5. about flies and mosquitoes not being above 3,500 feet. The worst swarms of both I ever encountered were on Rabbit Ear Creek, tributary of Troublesome rivers, 20 or more miles north of Kremmling, Grand Co., Col., at an elevation of 8,000 feet...
...Avery Mission Methodist Episcopal church in the north side of Pittsburgh last week clattered sounds of shouting, crying, handclapping. A joint commission of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church had recommended that the two churches fuse their organizations and their properties and call the combination the United Methodist Episcopal Church. They would be united "under a name that will be universal in meaning and not confine us to any race or country." Members of both denominations were glad. Efforts of 30 years were coming to fruition...