Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hampshire's Senator Bridges persuaded the Senate Military Affairs Committee to call Ambassador to Germany Hugh R. Wilson. If, as reported, Hugh Wilson does not see Europe as Franklin Roosevelt was shown it by Bill Bullitt & Joe Kennedy, the committee was not so informed. In net effect, Mr. Wilson gravely underlined the Bullitt-Kennedy reports (TIME, Jan. 23). Whereas those gentlemen talked at length, Mr. Wilson talked hardly at all. The situation, he said, was too grave for discussion...
...oath law from the books will not come up again until 1941. Informed circles at the State House said that had the Governor been pressed for a statement on Thursday the measure might have gone through, but that it had little chance of passage after today's roll call...
...close was the voting yesterday that Speaker Christian A. Herter '15 took an unusual step in having himself recorded in favor of reconsideration. The repeal bill prevailed on a voice vote, failed on a standing count, 83-77, before a roll call was ordered...
...different kinds: those whose tremendous genius sweeps them through the world and those who rise to equal heights through the perfect fusion of more ordinary talents. Washington was the second kind, and his legend suffers in consequence; for we demand spectacular superlatives today before we call a man a giant. Yet Washington was a giant; the perfect harmony and balance of his character may go unheralded today, but it is as important now as it was one hundred and fifty years...
...swing three or four votes before the measure is brought up again on the floor. In Thursday's balloting only 12 Representatives were not present, but the Massachusetts Civic League, leaders of outside pressure for repeal were confident that they would turn the tide in today's roll call...