Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Journal's falling circulation, its shrewd business manager, Simeon Reed Winch, last week did the smartest thing he could do: persuaded the Scripps boys to fold their News-Telegram and took over (for a reported $600,000) its features and circulation. After eliminating duplication, the Journal should get between 20,000 and 25,000 circulation from the News-Telegram, come out of the deal on a par with the Oregonian...
...George Lyndon Carpenter, 67, Australian-born head of the Army's work in Canada, whom Bramwell Booth demoted a year before he was deposed, was elected the Army's fifth General. No autocrat, General Carpenter promised to appoint a council of advisers. Said he: "If I ever get to the stage of refusing to listen to advice I hope the Army will ask me to retire-and will see to it that...
...girl offered to buy her own bedding if a ship would sell her space anywhere aboard. Cluett, Peabody & Co.'s President Chesley Robert Palmer & family, who had crossed in a de luxe suite on Holland-America liner Nieuw Amsterdam, on the homeward passage shared three deck mattresses. To get ailing Steelmaster Charles M. Schwab, his nurse, valet and physician accommodations, Ambassador Joseph Kennedy had to intervene. Others who squeezed in just under the sellout: Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr.; Financier John Pierpont Morgan; a man who described himself as "only a postage-stamp merchant," named James...
Next day, to the abandoned two-story plant of Fashionmaid Hosiery Co. at Vankirk and Keystone Streets went the 80 to clean up, overhaul the machines, put up a new sign (Colonymaid Hosiery Corp.) and get ready for production. It was their plant. They had put up $300 each by drawing on savings, getting loans on their life insurance and cars. They had high hopes and some reason for them...
...explained indirectly in a commentary on his poetry: "Printing poetry is not only expensive," says Fearing, "but dangerous; it marks you as a public enemy. My first book [Angel Arms]disgraced me; my second [Poems'] bankrupted me; after my third one [Dead Reckoning] I was lucky to get away with my life." As his literary influences he names Composer Maurice Ravel, Painter George Grosz, Poets Walt Whitman and Carl Sandburg. But no critic has accused him of imitativeness, except, at times, of himself...