Word: callings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both men were up on Team A today because of their work on last Saturday. Ogden's sparkling defensive play, especially going down under punts, earned him the call over Harding and Burns. Whether or not he will be in the starting lineup on Saturday still remains to be seen. In making way for Ogden, O'Connell was shifted to right end, which position he will probably hold down against Army...
...Connecticut Ave., went President Hoover. There in bed lay his good old friend Theodore Elijah Burton, 77, suffering complications after an attack of grippe he had last month. It was the President's second call since the senator fell ill. He stayed some little time, the chunky, healthy, 55-year-old executive talking with, and listening to, the venerable legislator, scholar, statesman, peace-seeker...
...with a sigh said softly, "Oh, dear me." Then she went over and congratulated Miss Collett. Next day Collett beat Mrs. Opel Hill, and the day after that took the finals and her fourth national title by beating plump, blonde Mrs. Harry Pressler, who asked people particularly not to call her Mrs. Harry Pressler but Leona...
...touch with his business and when in Chicago eats lunch in the restaurant on the main floor of the white Wrigley Building which towers like a huge birthday cake beside an oily curve of the Chicago river. Snobbish Chicagoans who see him eating there are impressed with what they call the democracy of this great millionaire who was once a soap crutcher. In modern times soap is crutched or mixed by a machine but in the soap factory of William Wrigley Sr., opposite Wayne Junction, Philadelphia, the soap crutcher stood beside a vat of boiling soap and stirred it with...
Atlantans, proud of the Woodruff record, point out that at 33 he was the youngest president of a large U. S. corporation, at 40 holds a position entirely unique. Watching his method of handling men, which consists of issuing few orders, making subordinates think, they call him "more thoroughly representative of the new style southern industrial leader than any other...