Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only hope that if I call a friend a "Usamian" he won't think I said, "You simian." HARRY H. PIERSON Washington...
Since he undertook to lead a Congress which Franklin Roosevelt left to stew in its own juice, John Garner has taken to rambling out of his room in the Senate office building to call on Senators young & old, to having likely new House men brought in to his "school of education" by mutual friends. He does not dazzle them with brilliance. He is more apt to invite them to join him in "striking a blow for liberty" (taking a snort of Mount Vernon rye). He has no whip to crack. He does not drive. He hardly leads. But the Garner...
...monuments, throws parties for poor children, meddles not at all in politics. He gets $47,700 salary a year, an equal amount for expenses, has the Elysée Palace as a Paris home and the ancient royal château of Rambouillet for his summer residence. French wits call him the "prisoner of Marianne." The last job an ambitious, up-&-coming French politician wants is the presidency...
...runner-up in the vote for the Class Day Committee was Robert E. Strider, having 186. Others on the ballot were: Hughes Call, 163; John M. Johansen, 158; Bruce Foster, 149; William W. Austin, 136; Edward H. Schoyer, 102; Samuel L. M. Cole, 102; Philip H. Walker, 97; Hunter Hendee, 74; Frank Dunn, Jr. 73. Election Results Secretary Cleveland Amory 151 Robert M. Bunker 142 Richard S. Benner 90 Charles A. Meyer 58 Class Day Committee Clifford W. Wilson 332 Richard P. Hedblom 250 Oliver P. Bolton 248 Edmund L. Cherbonnier 248 Joseph A. Patrick 240 J. Spence Harvin...
...Hughes Call...