Word: callings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opinion, but before I had talked more than a minute you advised me that you had another appointment and would discuss this matter with me at a later date." He next heard of the matter five days later, Sullivan said, when he was told by a long-distance telephone call that Johnson had washed out the whole carrier project...
...friendly Republican Senator Raymond Baldwin declared last week. Instead, his path had kept him in politics for 20 years. After three terms as governor of Connecticut, he passed up a $30,000-a-year job as vice president of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. to answer the party call again and make the race for the Senate...
People who have seen him in action call him the greatest one-man show this side of Winston Churchill. He has Churchill's sense of being on intimate terms with history. He also has his sense of danger and drama. He wraps himself in thundering generalities; he sometimes sounds, annoyingly, as though he had just received a special briefing from heavenly quarters. But few people come away without the conviction that he is a great...
...party in power, the Liberals had been able to fix the election date to suit themselves. Early last week, back from a 6,000-mile political swing through Western Canada, Louis St. Laurent had called his cabinet into session. "Well, gentlemen," he said, "I think we should have an early election. Does everyone agree?" Everyone did. The cabinet settled on the earliest possible date: June 27. In the House of Commons that night, Louis St. Laurent made his early election call, announced the dissolution of Parliament for week...
Deans v. Consensus. But in two years, even Stoke was not able to reform everybody. Some deans still take a dim view of his new "administration by consensus," call it "administration by passing the buck." Governor Long backed a constitutional amendment last November to bring the L.S.U. Board of Supervisors under his thumb. The amendment lost, but Louisiana recently began to hear, and read in newspaper columns, that the Supervisors themselves were set to bounce Harold Stoke. Then, went the story, L.S.U. might get a Louisiana man again as its president...