Word: calls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regard to the "Fair Refugees" letter of E. P. Waterman (TIME, March 13), I should like to know if he and his friends are natives of New York City. If so, they can't be afraid of the out-of-town friends who may call them up for they have probably never been farther from home than Philadelphia...
...have the right of it when you call our taoiseach [Eamon de Valera] "teacherish" [TIME, Oct. 31]. Tis a true word surely. But where are your wits at all that you have been looking at pictures of him these 20 years and more and never saw that "turkey-necked" would be a truer one? And without codding doesn't the face of him look like a turkey...
...France Premier Edouard Daladier, discarding protests as mere "words, words, words," went before Parliament and obtained dictatorial powers to permit him to act secretly and promptly to forestall any further Nazi or Fascist moves. He was expected to put France on a virtual wartime footing, to call up extra men to the colors, to speed arms production. The French toyed with the idea of building up a strong Eastern European entente of Poland, Rumania and Yugoslavia...
...about America, but in England at present the average man-in-the-street, the floating vote as we call him, holds the balance between tradition and reform in British foreign policy...
Leon Henderson, a former NRA official, made a hurt defense of it. SECommissioner Jerome Frank explored "the question whether competition does not also at times lead to great economic and social waste," then suggested: "that the category of those industries which today we call public utilities, the category of industries where monopoly may be more desirable than competition, is not necessarily a closed...