Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Should declared instead of undeclared war come to Europe, Washington opinion last week rated 50-50 the chance of President Roosevelt's calling a special session of Congress to repeal or amend the Neutrality Act, which expires anyway next May 1. If he should call Congress, he would probably be embarrassed by revival of the movement for a Constitutional Amendment to require that the nation be polled before entering a foreign war. To oppose such a movement would argue-as loud Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. was already shouting last week-that the Roosevelt Administration is war-minded...
...hour after hour indecisively pondering its answer to the Anglo-French proposals, the Government sent a blunt question to Paris: What would France do about its pact with Czechoslavakia if Prague's answer was no? The question was born of desperation. Under the treaty setups, Czechoslovakia can call on France for aid only if she is the victim of "unprovoked aggression," can call upon Russia only after France has marched. President Benes had been informed that Paris might regard a Czechoslovak refusal to do as Britain and France demanded as "provoking aggression" from Germany, canceling the treaty safeguards, absolving...
...minute. Scientists agreed that the Englishmen could not travel much faster and live to tell about it (present rubber tires can take just so much friction). King-for-a-day Cobb, who had originally intended to continue the contest as long as weather permitted, blinked his eyes, decided to call it quits for this year...
...Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin wrote a letter to the London Times pleading with the world's youth who 'are bound together by a common love of physical fitness and in a spirit of sportsmanship engendered by their love of games ... to let their voice be heard in a call for moral rearmament . . . under the guidance of. God, who is the Father...
...driver of the express trucks will, in many cases, call for the laundry at the student's room and when the home-done laundry package is returned by express, the driver delivers it without extra charge...