Word: callings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...call your attention to an epithet "papists'" that one finds only on the lips and in the writings of bigots. We Catholics resent the characterization. I am sure you do not mean to be offensive but you will submit a little more care should be exercised...
...obtain permission to submit the Fogg picture as evidence, it was necessary to call up the Louvre Museum in Paris by trans-oceanic telephone. At 1 o'clock the important negative left Boston, and will be offered today by Alan Burroughs '20, X-ray expert and head of the identification department at the Fogg...
...Housing Commission suggested no method by which the cats may be gotten rid of, however, and Captain Brennan said that he was also at a loss to think of a plan of action that might be employed in the war on the felines. He suggested that he might call for volunteers among his men to form a "bean blower squad" and detail them to slink around the alleys and yards of the terrace and inflict their ammunition upon the molesting chorus. The only objection to this method is that it will not make for the permanent removal of the feline...
...Market. None of these measures was by themselves particularly drastic (was offset, for example, by failure to raise the rediscount rate), but taken altogether they gave nervous speculators chills & fever. On Friday call money went from 6½% to 10% and the whole market went off in a sharp decline that continued through Saturday's closing. There was nothing resembling a panic but the orderly retreat was rapid, sustained, unchecked by short covering...
...market opened the week, however, with a general rally, caused by the fact that many good stocks had been oversold and that call money eased off to 7%. Coppers and utilities headed the rebound...