Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college in America, that aged seat of learning is justified in stroking its long grey beard, settling back in its easy chair, looking out over the City of Boston, and exasperating moderns by its antique idiosyncrasies, such as, for example, the ringing of the seven o'clock bell to summon bleary-eyed undergraduates to a compulsory chapel that has been dead these fifty years...
...Washington, But the miners si ill stayed out and the President's next move was to summon a committee of captive mineowners to the White House. To U. S. Steel's Myron C. Taylor, Bethlehem's Eugene G. Grace, National's Ernest T. Weir and Jones & Laughlin's George Laughlin Jr. was presented an eight-point program, written in the President's own hand and scrutinized by General Johnson, which provided for a meeting between captive operators and union representatives. "Failing in agreement on any point . . . the President will pass on the questions involved...
This last week has been replete with Interesting events, some of them of more than passing importance; but among them were two especially which summon up remembrance of things past and apparently forgotten. These items were accounts of the Dillon frauds and of the suspicious action of an American shippers' organization which seems to have stacked systematically the personnel of the Government board which handed out the contracts and subsidies to domestic lines. Both stories were inconspicuously set up, and we can safely assume that the city editor correctly estimated their news value. And that fact cannot help but carry...
...German Swiss have been unmoved at offers to trade their dull commercial comfort for the hysterical frenzy of the Third Reich, but last week they got mad. At Ramsen on the German border three Nazi toughs crossed the Swiss frontier, beat off a Swiss customs guard before he could summon aid, seized a Czech citizen named Hermann Weber, dragged him screaming into Germany. There have been a series of similar incidents. Switzerland's unvarying foreign policy (MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS) has kept all Swiss papers from any overt criticisms of the Hitler Government but last week even the staid...
...automobile in Manhattan's Central Park; in a Manhattan hospital. Although he had a broken pelvis and internal injuries, he tried to refuse hospitalization after the accident, gave a fictitious name. No one suspected his identity until he disclosed it few days before his death in order to summon his wife...