Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the same hearings, another Little Man moaned: "Four workers in my laundry, I have to pay them each $12.60, no matter what I make. Me, I'm called the employer, I work no maximum hours, maybe the end of the week I get six or seven dollars. What do you call me, where do I get in the picture...
...Well," said Elmer Andrews, "I call you a business...
Sirs: After our tourist bureaus spent oodles of money advertising that the map of Michigan is the Right Hand of Hospitality Extended you fellows call it the left hand palm-down, in TIME, July 4-5 article on "Electrified Thumb." Helpful, aren't you ? M. JORLING Saginaw, Mich...
Convinced of his own honesty, increasingly active in the political councils of the "Kitchen Cabinet" (Messrs. Corcoran, James Roosevelt, Joe Keenan et al.), and increasingly convinced of his right to play a part in politics, Harry Hopkins replies to such attacks: "They can call names just so often. I know a lot of adjectives my self and I am going to start in pretty soon...
...married, "renovated," "wilted" and "have phffft" for parted or divorced. And a glimmering interest in politics was evidenced in this item printed in September 1932: " 'Sonny' Whitney has dropped the name of Vanderbilt because 'it is incongruous' . . . Sonny also doesn't want you to call him 'Sonny' now that he's running for office. . . . They called Roosevelt 'Teddy' and Lincoln 'Abe,' Sonny...