Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ground. Mr. McNamara, president of the body, declared that Cambridge "was not going to be turned into a laboratory of guinea pigs for a lot of theorists" and sat down on his political haunches. Even when the ballot law commission certified the petition of Saturday, Mr. McNamara refused to call a special meeting because of an "interfering" ordinance. Mayor Lyons also did his part: to Dean Landis's plea that he call a meeting, as chief executive, he answered that he was "on his way to Maine." Finally, prodded by the supreme judicial court, the Council met and voted...
...TIME did not call Judge Rutherford a prophet but a pontiff. Last March the U. S. Supreme Court upheld the right of Jehovah's Witnesses, and other citizens, to distribute pamphlets. Far be it from TIME to judge, from among the clouds of Christian witnesses, which are the true followers of Jesus Christ. Jehovah's Witnesses, however, are demonstrably cultists, holding as they do such unorthodox beliefs as that the world has already ended.-ED. Ears Pinned...
This last was too much for chunky little Ambassador Dieckhoff, who trotted to the State Department to protest to Secretary Hull. He pointed out that Germany has done all it can do by forbidding its own nationals to join the Bund. "Un-officially," Embassy Counselor Dr. Hans Thomsen called Witness Metcalfe untrustworthy. Counselor Thomsen asked why the Dies committee did not call Führer Kuhn to testify...
Chairman Dies retorted that he would call Fuhrer Kuhn on condition that he produce all Bund records. Then he added: ''We have almost conclusive evidence that Kuhn ordered all Bund posts throughout the U. S. to destroy their records...
...Chamberlain were made almost entirely from extremely safe distances of several thousand miles, notably by certain Manhattan radio news broadcasters. Of these. Johannes Steel, a German agent on mysterious missions in Brazil until the Nazis came into power, was the most caustic: "Good evening ladies and gentlemen. So they call it peace! . . . They call it peace because the victim, not being able to save itself from its friends, cannot face the enemy alone. They call it peace because the victor received the spoils before instead of after battle! . . . The England of Mr. Chamberlain is not the true England, the Democratic...