Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knowledge . . . was adequate to meet the emergency." In the chaotic situation that developed in international finance in 1915, when Allied orders were keeping U. S. factories humming, but when the Administration's disapproval of loans to belligerents threatened a crisis, Wilson listened to House, but did not call in Treasury experts to advise him. Wilson and Bryan, says Dr. Tansill, were gulled by Wall Street, approving measures that ran counter to their policy of neutrality in general, until the U. S. was bound to the Allied cause by the firmest of economic ties. Nevertheless, he clears Wall Street...
...three months or for one year as the union demanded. Early this week Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, who knows how to remain calm under labor fire, deposited the contending parties in separate hotel rooms and, after seven consecutive hours of shuttling back & forth, the union agreed to call off the "revolution" in exchange for a four-month extension...
...course desired by Labor "you would have sinking of ships, you would have perhaps naval battles, and a European war would have begun!" Neville Chamberlain insisted that his policy has "met with approval, not only in this country but abroad, with the possible exception of Russia." He refused to call a General Election for "no Government with an ample majority ever went to the country at the demand of such feeble opposition." The House finally supported Chamberlain...
Many critics call the turn by glibly referring to The Sea Gull as a tragedy of frustration. But the play is tragicomedy, impaling human foibles as well as hearts. Tender but ruthless, The Sea Gull smiles upon the too-utterly-utter side of the artistic temperament, reflects the conflict between two incompatible generations. It exposes Trigorin's rueful egotism: "On my tombstone," says Trigorin, "they will say: Here lies Trigorin, who was a good writer, but not so good a one as Turgenev." It exposes Nina's swimming-eyed romanticism. Chekhov suggested, though Actor Lunt has not heeded...
Twenty members of a Portland, Ore. mountainclimbing club who call themselves Mazamas (after the Indian word for mountain goat) rode in a bus early one morning last week to Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood, on their way to a fateful climb. Over 50 times the Mazamas had climbed the11,253-ft. mountain. They considered it a routine expedition...