Word: callings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the State Department abruptly sharpened its tone, told the Czech government to call home two of its own diplomats, the consul general in New York and a strangely authoritative embassy housekeeper in Washington...
...York City, which enjoys a good show, was having a pleasantly lively time in the mayoralty campaign. Neither greying, genial Democratic Mayor Bill O'Dwyer, nor his Republican-Liberal-Fusion challenger, Newbold Morris, could find any real excuse to call each other hard names. The Communist Party's favorite Congressman, shrill little Vito Marcantonio, had no real chance. There was no real issue. But the candidates were cartwheeling through a sort of political acrobatic contest, which provided wholesome free entertainment for young...
...course the candidates have favorite theories about their opponents. Both McDonough and Hynes call Curley a jailbird and point out that he's too old to do a good job. The two, also, call each other some names: Hynes accuses McDonough of being a young Curley while McDonough thinks that Hynes is actually backed by Curley to defeat McDonough. Curley calls Hynes a fusion candidate, a political dupe of the Republicans on Beacon Hill...
Permit us to call attention to an article in the CRIMSON of October 26. In using the term "Jap" to describe the Buddhist Abbot who inspected Harvard on the 25th of this month, you have undoubtedly offended him and other Japanese, who may have read the article. This term is not used by the Japanese, who consider it opprobrious, nor by the U. S. Army of Occupation, except in code designations such as JAP OC, where it is clearly an abbreviation...
...added that the night clerk promised to tell police about the call. As of last night, the Cambridge blotter had no record of the incident, but it was impossible to determine whether the night clerk had failed to call or whether the whole thing was a publicity stunt...