Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just the kind of non-political appointments which made editorial applause obligatory. Disregarding complaints by Ohio's unpredictable Senator Vic Donahey the President chose, for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, distinguished Dean Herschel W. Arant of Ohio State University's Law School. Disregarding a White House call by Pennsylvania's loyal Senator Joe Guffey, the President chose for the Third Circuit Court able Philadelphia Lawyer Francis Biddle, former chairman of NLRB and counsel to the Congressional investigators of TVA. To the seat vacated by "Borrowing" Circuit Judge Martin T. Manton in New York, he appointed...
...Disney's triumphs are what I call twentieth-century folk art," Feild told an enthusiastic audience. "His cartoons present perhaps the only universal art form in history. My efforts can only be for the greater enjoyment of his work." Feild spent much of last summer in Hollywood, California, studying the new science in talking pictures fostered by Disney...
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...Undergraduate sponsors issued a preliminary call for funds, the President complimented there on their "serious effort" and stated that "a very real need" exists for the extension of cultural appreciation between the United States and the Latin-American nations...
WASHINGTON--Secretary of State Cordell Hull tonight inferentially rejected proposals that President Roosevelt call an international disarmament conference and declared it is a "sacred duty" to strengthen defense forces when the specter of a major war "haunts the world...