Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apparently seeking a first team catcher, Coach Fred Mitchell yesterday used Bob Fulton behind the plate, while on Wednesday against B. U. Ellie Bacon drew the starting call. It is uncertain whether one of these newcomers will be in the backstop position against Princeton Saturday instead of the veteran Paul Doyle...
Inside the Senate, 75-year-old Joseph Caillaux, whom Leftists call "the Cabinet Killer," continued to play his dominant role, icily bemonocled. The Senate, while the crowd howled outside, voted credits for the entertainment of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on their State visit to France this coming June. As the dinner hour approached the mob scurried home. Inflammatory posters screeched from Paris hoardings meanwhile, appeals to the Socialists, the Communists and the Anarchists to "Rise against this handful of stony-hearted old men, ensconced in their Senatorial Bastille...
Dorothy Day, 40, once an Episcopalian, was converted to Catholicism 13 years ago after having dabbled in Socialism as a writer on the New York Call, in Communism as an employe of the old Masses and the Liberator. For almost five years her colleague on the Catholic Worker has been Peter Maurin, 60, a genial, peasant-born Frenchman who, for the sake of his principles, gave up giving French lessons, became a laborer at a boys' camp. In 1932, reading two of Miss Day's articles in Catholic magazines, he discovered they spoke the same language, and hastened...
...Edsel's with old friends & neighbors. Next day Dearborn luncheon clubs presented Motorman Ford with a book containing 4,000 admiring letters. The clubs also announced they had drawn up a 500,000-signature, mile-and-a-half-long petition to Franklin Roosevelt, asking him to call off Labor's attacks on Ford. The petition will be carted to Washington in a trailer...
...have a solution, the President contented himself with sending along the Splawn report together with the comments of such advisers as Jesse Jones, Henry Morgenthau, J. J. Pelley, William O. Douglas, most of whom gave it less than complete approval. As his own comment, the President took occasion to call certain functions of the Interstate Commerce Commission "in all probability unconstitutional," to repeat his opposition to Government ownership of the roads, to agree that from a long-range point of view consolidation of all U. S. transport under one body would be advisable. But on the immediate question...