Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LIFE, Feb. 7: "... Many will call it the greatest musical movie ever made . . . stands out in stunning relief . . . never loses pace. Its dancing is expert. Its comedy is really funny...
Against. At 3:15, on the stormy morning of April 6, 1917, when the U. S. House of Representatives voted 373-to-50 to declare that a state of war existed with Germany, a memorable incident took place on the floor. As the clerk called the roll after a day of historic debate, the first woman Representative in U. S. history, and then the only woman in Congress, Montana's Jeannette Rankin, sat silent in her seat instead of voting. Before the second roll call, Uncle Joe Cannon went to her side, begged her, as the Representative...
...land. This week, after three days of debate divided between assertions by various Senators .that they did not understand what they were voting for and contrary assertions that the bill had to be passed anyway, Majority Leader Barkley managed a roll call, got the bill passed...
...view of the alleged parallel between President Conant's recent statement on the possible advisability of curtailing university attendance and certain policies of the National Socialists, a parallel suggested by the Cambridge Union of University Teachers, I should like to call the Union's attention to the remarks on Germany in Kotschnig's recent book, Unemployment in the Learned Professions, and to Lowe's article in Social Research of last September. (Kotschnig is now teaching in this country, Lowe in England.) There is considerable evidence that the fifty to seventy thousand unemployed university graduates in Germany in 1932 not only...
Having compiled a mass of statistics, Metcalf was yesterday in a position to speak on a question which has long been a matter of dark speculation, just what happens when a prospective borrower turns in his slip at the call desk...