Word: calls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grimier novel- has recently been published. Novelist Adams takes as his hero Willis Markham, President of the U. S., a poker-playing, whiskey-drinking, easygoing, good-natured pal who was lifted suddenly to the highest office in the land by his shrewd political friends. "Chief" Markham, as the boys call him, loves his friends, trusts them, lets them run the government. The result is the incubation of corruption in oil and in the so-called Department of Public Health which is so crooked that it even gets graft out of roach powder. Murders, lewd women, drunken revels, coarse dialogue...
...long as the American economic fibre is as it is now, there will be no call for widespread Labor agitation here nor will the Labor party succeed in England until it is unified under strong leaders, and succeeds in winning to its standard some of the districts that, under the glow of success, now stand aloof. When these districts and industries see the good that may be done by Labor united the party will be on the road to greater power...
...landed at Boston last week and immediately told the rocking-chair voyagers there the same tales of jungleering that I told last summer upon emerging from the Amazon hinterland (TIME, July 5). I told of civilizations antedating the Incas, of a human race so low that other natives call them animal folk, of finding caterpillars tough eating. At this time I did not stress the fact that I am a Buddhist priest, regularly authenticated in Tibet...
...leaders who have advocated it in public admit that in private that they do not believe the time has yet come for the Americans to withdraw completely from the Islands. Their secret ideal is for complete independence under the protecting arm of the United States, with the right to call on us for unlimited funds to experiment with government and business, and with the expectation that in the event of danger of external aggression our might will protect them...
Students are urged by the Phillips Brooks House to aid this charity by contributing old books, old hats, old suits, or any of their unnecessary heirlooms. Anything antedated is legitimate prey for the social service men. Trucks will call at each dormitory to collect the booty...