Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hamilton, Liberty Leaguer Jouett Shouse, Stiff-necked Democratic Senator Joseph O'Mahoney, Republican Congressman Ham Fish and John and Anna Roosevelt were all sailing for Europe on the same ship, Franklin D. Roosevelt remarked : "That will be a great boatload," observed that if someone didn't get thrown overboard before the ship reached Southampton he would miss a guess. It would not, he predicted, be Jim Farley...
...half what he had hoped for. He had forecast a $4,000,000 loss if only 40,000,000 people came to the Fair the first year, a $1,000,000 profit on 50,000,000. With three months to go, it appeared that he would be lucky to get 30,000,000. Tip-off on his Big Show's fiscal status was the market for its $27,829,500 of outstanding 4% debentures (5% paid off): the closing...
...lips twisted in a grin of satisfaction. He had just told President Roosevelt that there weren't going to be any more big private utilities in the Tennessee Valley: he had completed final arrangements for the purchase of Tennessee Electric Power Co. Big Commonwealth Corp. was to get $78,600,000 for its operating subsidiary...
...talk, with a native Indiana tang, is even more vigorous. To hell with formality. He talks as men do in the locker room, and spices his profanity with the Bible, Shakespeare and law. He spills out figures, dates, technical facts, historical parallels. When the argument grows hot his eyes get hawklike and his stubborn upper lip stiffens. If an opponent wilts under his fire, Willkie is disgusted. He doesn't want the argument...
...progressive doctrines of Bob La Follette, the elder, fought the nomination of William Gibbs McAdoo at the 1924 Democratic convention because of the Klan issue. In 1926 aristocratic Public Utilitarian Bernard Capen Cobb wrote to an officer of his Northern Ohio Power & Light: "Do not let this young man get away from us. . . . He is a comer and we should keep...