Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...control." The Governor hastily sent the National Guard to build a stockade near the prison. Reason: Because of a shortage of cells 200 trusties have been sleeping outside the prison walls, 15 had escaped in six weeks, five more had just escaped. Said Warden Eager: "You can't call it an escape, exactly. All the guards were out chasing convicts...
...evening two years ago a bored United Press night man in Paris picked up a buzzing telephone to hear his London office calling. "Our subscription call from Spain hasn't come through," London told Paris. "We can't raise Madrid. Will you try?" A few minutes later the Paris international operator reported: "The Spanish operators don't answer...
...been taken from his Madrid apartment by uniformed Assault Guards of the Spanish Government, delivered dead to a cemetery caretaker. Sensing a big story, knowing that armed guards were patrolling Spanish cities, newshawks in Paris woke up string correspondents along the Spanish border, put in a call to Oran, in French Morocco. At 1:30 a. m. Madrid suddenly came through with a seven-word official statement: "The Government is master of the situation." These words were the first intimation to the outside world that revolt had broken out in Spain...
...respectively Communist Willie Gallacher and Independent Laborite Jock McGovern. Mr. McGovern demanded that His Majesty's Government take steps to secure the release from Moscow and Leningrad jails of twelve Indian Communists arrested by Stalin police on charges of Trotskyism. Mr. Gallacher interjected to call Mr. McGovern "a converted revolutionary who now pleads with Capitalism to protect criminals!" Mr. McGovern retorted by calling Mr. Gallacher "a creature so completely under the thumb of Moscow that he dare not stand up and defend British subjects!" After some further parliamentary billingsgate, the matter was left to the British Embassy in Moscow...
...told that while the opera was being written, Librettist Zweig, worried by Nazi growls, suggested that they call the whole thing off, that Strauss get himself another librettist acceptable to the German authorities. In reply to Librettist Zweig's suggestion, white-haired Strauss wrote a long letter. In it he expressed his contempt for the Nazis, and his hunch that by the time the opera was completed they would be out of power anyhow. The letter was addressed to Zweig in Vienna, but Zweig did not receive it. At the Austrian border, Nazi officials opened the letter and read...