Word: calls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...facts are that he was warden of the Idaho state penitentiary at Boise, several hundred miles from Salmon, four consecutive two-year terms from 1900 to 1909. Again, in 1924, he was called to the wardenship of the institution but had served only a year when he accepted a call to the wardenship of the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., where...
...distressed to note that the expiration date thereon has not yet been advanced to include 1927. This embarrasses me. I am given to understand that I have been brought up genteel, and somehow I can't persuade myself that it would be quite genteel to call the situation baldly to my friend's attention. Here you can help me. If you will print this letter in TIME-anywhere in TIME-he will see it. ... This method of communication would actually be surer, as well as more genteel, than a direct message, for I am by no means...
...passport to his freedom. . . . "I thank God that there is a place in the Republic where the representatives of the people can express their opinion and make known their convictions without being awed or intimidated by the fear that the court could punish them for what it might call contempt of court, and this place is one of them. . . . "Mr. President, there are millions of his [Mr. Fall's] countrymen who would not object to seeing him adorned with a yellow necktie in the form of a grass rope. If an American soldier in charge of the oil reserves...
...Mosely cohorts were swelled by onetime Premier Ramsay Macdonald (Laborite). Smethwick bums and paupers cheered with loud good humor the stump speeches of this galaxy. Smethwick brats were soundly kissed by apple-cheeked Betty Baldwin and peftte Lady Cynthia Mosely. Betty Baldwin taunted Oswald Mosely with stooping to call Lady Cynthia "the Missus" for campaign purposes. That lady, indefatigable, harangued a Communist meeting; with a red flag in her hand, led the singing of the International, walked to the edge of the Smethwick slums, was whisked to her hotel in a Curzon-bought Rolls-Royce...
...book, "The Golden Day", by Lewis Mumford, which is, among other things, the application of Irving Babbitt's canons of literary criticism to American civilization what Van Wyck Brooks is willing to call the greatest book of American criticism, and a book that will thrill and depress any self-conscious and curious-about-himself American down to the very bottom of his feet...