Word: calls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still had ambitions for the presidency. He was glad to be in Washington for a visit, he declared. "At one time last year, I expected to come for a longer stay. I was under the impression, which was shared by a great many others, that I had a clear call to duty. But last November it turned out to be some other kind of noise. Instead ... I have been graduated at a comparatively early age to the role of elder statesman, which someone has aptly defined as a politician who is no longer a candidate for office...
...Uncle John," as the comrades call him, started out as a barber's apprentice in Volos, Thessaly, rose rapidly in the Red hierarchy, and by 1928 was important enough to go to Russia for indoctrination and treatment in a tuberculosis sanatorium. Exile, jail, conspiracy and murder have long since become his familiars. Recently a rebel deserter was asked if Uncle John had any hobby. The ex-rebel drew a forefinger across his throat and answered: "Counting heads...
...Khedive of Egypt himself, squat, fat and bearded, came personally to Paris to call on Emperor Napoleon III and to invite the Empress to the party; Eugénie was pleased to accept. It was a great moment for both their nations. After ten years of crises, discouragements and setbacks, France's and Egypt's money had finally driven the canal through from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, and it was Eugénie's own cousin, Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had seen the job through. To celebrate the opening, the Khedive had brought together...
...things he has seen, and usually he does it vividly enough to convince others of their reality. "The hardest thing for me is to find the right details. I do it just by thinking back. I'm depressed then, and my stomach aches. But sometimes a friend will call me and say, 'Henry, I was out driving and I found the scene you used in such & such a picture.' It's never true of course, but it makes me happy...
...star-snatching, which prompted Variety to call CBS "Paley's Comet," is a one-man triumph for dapper William S. Paley, 47. Born in Chicago and educated at the University of Pennsylvania, Paley was doing all right (vice president in charge of advertising) in his family's Congress Cigar Co. when he decided there was money in radio. Impressed because radio plugs boosted his La Palina cigar sales by 150%, in 1928 he bought control of CBS for $300,000. Since he took charge, the network has grown from 20 stations...