Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Has Tommy Got? On one occasion Assistant Littell waited for three days to confer with Mr. Biddle. Just after he finally got in to see him, the phone rang "and Mr. Biddle's remarks were about like this: 'Hello, Tommy. No-you don't need to come over here. You can come here or I'll come to your apartment, whichever suits your convenience.' It was clear that he preferred to have the Attorney General go there. My appointment was cut short and Mr. Biddle departed in about five minutes...
...Slaveowners." Two days after the phone call. Caesar Petrillo sat in another of his offices, this time on the 34th floor of Manhattan's General Electric Building, surrounded by his henchmen. In filed the representatives of Victor and Columbia. For five hours they struggled over the exact contract language. Finally, Caesar handed them a pen and the woe-to-the-vanquished terms he had given Decca: a fee on every record, ranging from ¼? to 5?. the money to be paid into a special Musician's Union fund...
...reply, just in time to catch the Monday morning papers. Said he: "My opponent indicated that he has no program and has sunk to mere quoting from Mein Kampf. . . . I shall examine his record with unvarnished candor." At Belen, N. Mex., Tom Dewey got off, walked into a glass phone booth in the station, put in a long distance call to National Chairman Herbert Brownell. While Indian children and cowboys ogled him through the glass, Tom Dewey ordered a second radio network (170 more stations on the Blue) for his speech in answer...
...Sebastian's Uncle Eustace, a wealthy art collector with a failing heart, was on the phone listening to Laurina, his ex-mistress, read aloud from his old love letters. "You have the power," she read, "of arousing desires that are infinite and . . . can never be assuaged by ... a merely finite body." "Golly!" said Eustace, absently stroking his current Mistress Mimi, "did I say that...
Latin Quarter--The prominent figure here was the Sam Nichol party. His description of the Latin Quarter chorus is simply beyond the scope of this sheet. But his date had too much personality for him to get any phone numbers at the time...