Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while you're at the job, try to figure out a real honest-to-God Roosevelt New Dealer to take over the old man's job, so we can all get out of the fishbowl...
...shall be glad to assist in the formulation of a reasonable program." Said Chairman Adams of the Senate sub-committee which cut $150,000,000 from WPA's deficiency appropriation, only to have the President demand it again: "If there was some cooperation by the Administration, we might get something done...
Franklin Roosevelt's kin often get themselves into the newspapers. One who did so last week was the President's lusty second son, Elliott, who runs his second wife's radio station (KFJZ) at Fort Worth, and knows which side of his bread bears Texas butter. In one of his semiweekly personal broadcasts he said: "John Garner is in the driver's seat right now, well in the lead as a likely Democratic candidate for the Presidency...
...unemployed folks out here, Elliott, who've got to be taken care of, and we don't see how Garner's economy program is going to mean food and jobs for them. If 'Cactus Jack' and all his bellowing calves in Congress would really get behind the old man and quit sniping at him and upsetting the country and business, we'd be able to put these jobless to work all the sooner...
...Texas would like to see a Texan in the White House and so would I. . . . Get to know Garner some time when you get a chance to leave Seattle. You'll find him to be very much the same kind of a humanitarian thinker that the President...