Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finance our purchase from the United States without recourse to the type of borrowing that became essential [last time]. . . . Our expenditures in the United States can be controlled within the limits of our available and accruing dollar balances. For some time, if at all, it should be unnecessary to call on [Britain's] reservoir of American securities which have been mobilized [estimated at $1,100,000,000], for the traffic in them can be only one-way traffic...
...pacifist Catholic Worker, wrote Monsignor George Barry O'Toole, Catholic University philosophy professor. Said he: "Nowadays justification for an offensive war is practically impossible-the presumption is totally against it. Only if the Holy Father, whose decision in moral matters is infallible, were to call a crusade, could we be certain that sufficient justification existed...
Bill Coleman will undoubtedly get the call at quarterback, but the other three positions are wide open. Captain Torbie Macdonald, Frannie Loe, Joe Gardella, George Heiden, and Charley Spreyer are all equally well at home in more than one backfield assignment. Weather conditions at 1:45 o'clock Saturday may play a big part in determining the starting Crimson ball-carrying quartet...
...justifies his ejection of the student president of the Harvard Socialist League from the Browder protest rally with the categorical assertion that Mr. Pitts attempted to "disrupt" the meeting. He further attempts to discredit Pitts by indulging in talk about the "destructive activities of those who call themselves Trotskyites...
...created something close to dynamite in motion picture form. "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", like all Capra pictures, makes you laugh, cry, and sit on the edge of your seat in suspense. But this time Capra has gone a step further: he has portrayed what James Truslow Adams calls the "American dream." Granted that the picture is emotional to the nth degree, the fact remains that democracy, Americanism--call it what you will--is more a matter of emotion than cold logic. When an American sees the statue in the Lincoln Memorial, he does not see merely the image...