Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only catalogue which evaluates Freshman courses from the undergraduate's point of view, the Confidential Guide is offered free of charge to all Yardlings. Freshmen who did not receive their copies may call for them at the Crimson officers...
...Franklin Roosevelt released the first. It forbade aliens on U. S. soil as well as U. S. citizens to take armed service with a belligerent. Others of its 17 rules forbade belligerent ships-of-war to use U. S. harbors for anything more than hurried (24 hour) ports of call, to roam with intent to fight in U. S. waters, to chase one another in & out of American ports, to take on at U. S. docks more fuel than enough to get them to their countries' nearest ports, or to repair damage caused by battle...
Announced by Minister Cross were five control points where he proposed to have the British Navy go over questionable cargoes. These were Kirkwall (in the Orkney Islands), Weymouth and the Downs (English ports), Gibraltar and Haifa (Palestine). Neutral vessels bound toward Germany were politely requested to call at these ports, to save trouble all round. To reduce delay, ships were urged to have their papers and cargo manifests drawn up in convenient duplicate for the British officers...
...schools and colleges opened, many a student and teacher, stranded in Europe, failed to answer the roll call. But not resourceful Miss Alice T. Scheh, a Brooklyn high-school stenography teacher, who had an adventure to report to her pupils when she faced them bright & early one morning this week. Having spent the summer traveling alone in Iran and Iraq, Miss Scheh arrived in Italy with a return steamship ticket and a flat purse. Her ship developed "engine trouble," failed to sail. So did other ships to which the Italian Line transferred her. Unable to get either passage or refund...
...Raffles so that Actor David Niven could rejoin the Highland Light Infantry, work on Raffles was hastily resumed when the British Consulate in Los Angeles thought that Actor Niven would not be needed for at least 30 days. Only other Britishers on the active reserve list (liable to immediate call) were John Loder, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and the Earl of Warwick, whose Hollywood name is Michael Brooke. Only volunteer to turn up at the Consulate was Actor Alan Mowbray, 43, who was put to work listing other British subjects in the movie colony...