Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strict wartime naval censorship, Commander-in-Chief Roosevelt dropped out of sight with Admiral Leahy on the cruiser Houston after steaming in for a close look at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, receiving Governor Lawrence Cramer of the Virgin Islands on board in St. Thomas Harbor, and paying a courtesy call on the Dutch island of St. Eustatius ("Statia"). The President let it be known that he was following every minutest move of the opposing forces on a big chart in Admiral Leahy's quarters. "Results" of naval war games are not usually made public but this time nation and world...
...efforts were reinforced by Ohio's tall, squinty Robert Alphonso Taft, the new Senator of noble name and nominal fame in current Presidential polls, who had chosen this subject for his maiden Senate speech. Mr. Taft's party floor leader, Oregon's McNary, asked a quorum call, to which 88 Senators responded. So the G. O. P.'s leading Senate freshman had a good audience as he began in a clear but colorless voice: "Mr. President, I understand...
Frenchmen admire the Ambassador's cultivated tastes in wines and foods. They call him "that spectacular American." He is on intimate terms with many a French statesman. He frequently visits Premier Edouard Daladier. He was one of the few foreigners allowed to visit the powerful French Maginot Line. He has made little secret of his French sympathies and it was he who persuaded President Roosevelt to approve of the sale of U.S. warplanes to France last month...
...merely "The Islands," as Californians call the Hawaiians, but the southerly archipelagoes-Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia...
Last Monday Critic Lawrence Oilman had the sniffles. Reading Donald Tovey's recondite Essays in Musical Analysis, he came across a sentence which made him hop out of bed and call up NBC's Musical Commentator Samuel Chotzinoff. Did Mr. Toscanini know that Wagner's original prelude to the third act of Tannhauser, which got only one performance (at the opera's world premiere, 1845), was much longer than the one usually played? Arturo Toscanini, who has a memory like a telephoto camera, could remember having seen some such score. On Tuesday a phone call...