Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lobbyist William P. MacCracken Jr. (TIME, Feb. 12). But Sergeant Jurney had to report that from Mr. MacCracken, he had nothing more than a letter. Senate faces grew grim as they listened to Mr. MacCracken's letter declaring his "greatest respect" for the Senate, denying its right to summon him to show cause why he should not be punished for contempt. While the clerk's voice droned on, Senator Black scribbled rapidly, drafting a resolution ordering Sergeant Jurney to arrest and forthwith bring Mr. MacCracken before the bar of the Senate. With no delay the resolution was passed...
Fukien was the last straw of revolt last week, the straw that broke Generalissimo Chiang's resolve to lead the anti-Communist drive in Kiangsi, the straw that caused him to summon his Council of Generals. Last month the Province of Fukien near Canton was announced to have "seceded" (TIME, Nov. 27). Last week Fukien's bold rebels dared to claim that they, not Nanking, represent the true Government of all China. Hurling defiance at Generalissimo Chiang they announced that their army will be led by General Tsai Ting-kai, famed commander of the 19th Route Army...
...cannot chew is that of a family waiting for an old lady to die and leave them her $200,000. They wait 15 years while the old ogress, who never appears on the stage, clings to life in her room upstairs, taps signals on a steam pipe to summon the heirs & heiresses for obsequious ministrations, keeps them on tenterhooks by changing her will every so often. The grandson (Paul Guilfoyle) and his fiancee (Linda Watkins) are frustrated when the matriarch will not let him go to medical school; the granddaughter, prevented from marrying her garageman, sneaks off for weekends with...
...Negroes have served on grand and petty juries in Virginia since early reconstruction days when a Buckingham County sheriff was fined for refusing to summon negroes on juries. In practice, however, the State-wide selection of Negroes is the exception, not the rule...
...restless inhabitants of Reunion or West turn over in their beds these drear days, rudely called from the arms of Morpheus by the peal of Old Nassau, which seems even yet in the still, small hours of the morning to summon men to a ghostly service, they may innocently consider to themselves the sublime beauty and glorious value of ancient traditions. --The Princetonian...