Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from his air-conditioned office. He exercises in his own gymnasium at home, riding an electric horse, heaving a medicine ball, does not chum with Akron's other leading citizens, Firestones and Seiberlings. He does not invite his Goodyear "cabinet" to exercise with him, but he does summon them to lengthy breakfasts about once each month...
...attention there were the international negotiations incident to Mr. Hoover's proposed debt holiday (see p. 16). Undersecretary Mills was the President's statistical expert in whose head were all the facts and figures needed to deal with France. Two, three, sometimes four times a day President Hoover would summon him for conferences from his great oblong office on the second floor of the Treasury overlooking statues of Alexander Hamilton and William Tecumseh Sherman, with the Potomac beyond. So preoccupied was the Treasury's Undersecretary with the debt negotiations that he cancelled his usual Friday-to-Monday holiday...
...Hoover summons France to execute herself as he would summon Nicaragua," observed L'Ere Nouvelle, "and yet the whole world is astonished because we make a wry face!" Scattered through the text of conservative La Liberty's appraisal of Mr. Hoover were such epithets as "parvenue insolence," "nouveau riche impertinent" and "plain bad manners...
...extraction who heard the race by radio in Boston's Morgan Memorial. Tottering to his knees and twittering with prayer, he said: "Thanks Lord, for all the luck you have brought me." Later he announced that he would send his son to Harvard, his girls to Radcliffe and summon his wife from Jamaica...
...conference of Business & Industry. Insurgent Republican legislators insisted that only a special session of Congress would do. Chief shouter for such a session has been Wisconsin's persistent young Senator La Follette. Memorials from religious societies have also poured in upon the White House requesting the President to summon the Senate to ratify the World Court protocol. Last week President Hoover answered all shouters with the following statement, read out with emphasis at a routine press conference...