Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press on a guessing game. Best guess as to why Gracie Hall Roosevelt-a onetime Comptroller of Detroit, who now spends most of his time in New York-had given the invitation was that the President considered it more tactful to invite Mr. Ford through an emissary than to summon him directly. Having deduced this much-despite rumors that Hall Roosevelt had given the invitation on his own account, thus putting his brother-in-law in the position of being forced to second it-the nation's press spent the rest of the week speculating on what, since...
...this is being written it seems probable the Reorganization Bill will be on its way to the White House for signature-before this column is published. . . . We may look for a mournful recital of the supineness and rubber-stampedness of a cowering Congress that could not summon enough courage to stand out against an overbearing Chief Executive." Day that the above premature excerpt from his weekly handout. Dispelling the Fog, was scheduled to be released to the press last week, the Democratic National Committee's publicity director Charles ("The Mike") Michelson sent out a hasty request to editors that...
...tanks, armored cars and motorcycles mounting machine guns and antitank guns, 40,000 German soldiers riding in trucks, clinking their metal and squeaking in their leather, had been sweeping over the border since dawn. At Salzburg, Innsbruck, Kufstein, the German commanders rolled in, sent their staff officers to summon the Austrian commanders to the Rathaus, where the Austrians with unanimous cheerfulness accepted the decree that they were now part of the German Army...
Anxious to extract every ounce of juice from every story, he would summon young writers before him, subject them to a fire of questions: "Who?" "What did he do?'' "What do you mean...
This testimony was delivered on Monday by George E. Leslie, male nurse at the trial of the contest of the former Harvard graduate's will at the Suffolk probate court. Leslie testified further, "Adams was accustomed to call up his friends during the early morning hours and summon them to his apartment on the plea that he was dying, although he wasn't and he knew he wasn...