Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marie's hospital. I had visited there to contact and help to evacuate two Catholic sisters. They left here on the President Hoover. I took them to the Customs Jetty. Their departure was heralded by a Chinese plane and Japanese antiaircraft fire. Virginia today received a phone call from one of the remaining American sisters who stated that the evacuees had left for the States from Manila on the President Hoover which you know was bombed. One of the sisters died in San Francisco the day after landing...
...laying out such cards, ostensibly only for discussion, the British were by implication asking the French to enter into what David Lloyd George was to call later last week a "thieves' bargain." The diplomatic finesse of M. Léger was meanwhile shown when M. Chautemps and M. Delbos blandly told Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Eden and Sir Robert in effect that France was willing to go just as far in this matter as Britain-whereupon what had seemed to be British ardor to get action last week on behalf of Germany's scheme rapidly cooled, according to best...
Homer Peabody, whose 6 feet, 2 inches should prove a help on rebounds, got the call for the center spot. Wally Chessman and Ray Holt filled the guard positions...
...Theatrical Stage Employes of the American Federation of Labor. In Hollywood's studios 12,000 workmen are members of unions that have sworn allegiance to I.A.T.S.E.; in the projection booths of the nation's theatres, I.A.T.S.E. rules the roost. Should Tsar Browne and his lieutenant, William Bioff, call their men out on strike, practically the entire business of making and showing motion pictures could be brought to a jolting halt...
...Publisher Joseph Hamblen Sears (president, 1904-18, of D. Appleton & Co.. later head of his own firm) desiring a chef, saw an advertisement, called at the address given, met a short, stocky, quiet, efficient-looking servant, whom he hired on the spot. For 14 years in Mr. Sears' Oyster Bay, L. I. home, Alfred Grouard was a faultless chef who in spare time read religious works, prayed, but never left the estate, never received a letter, visitor, telegram, telephone call. Year ago Alfred Grouard's health failed, but when Mr. Sears called a doctor, Grouard refused...