Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Also, FBI started investigating the character of candidates for marshal jobs. Going further, Frank Murphy last week asked Congress to put all deputies into the Civil Service and require them to take physical examinations. The last was inspired by a certain 400-pounder in Illinois who, too fat to get out of his car to serve warrants, employed as his helper a village character called Silly Willy...
...contention, which started when Satevepost recently serialized excerpts from her story, Widow Wilson furnished plenty of material. Friends of Woodrow Wilson's faithful Irish Secretary Joseph Patrick Tumulty, now a high-powered Washington lobbyist, hotly dispute Mrs. Wilson's accounts that he 1) tried to get Wilson interested in the since exploded story that Warren Gamaliel Harding had Negro blood; 2) faked a Wilson endorsement of James Middleton Cox for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1924. And, though by U. S. etiquette a President's wife is usually as sacred as a President, in the Washington smartchat...
...Oval Room after dinner and practice a jig step, envied minstrel dancers because they "took on no more at their hearts than they could kick off at their heels." Another diversion of the 28th President of the U. S.: after long White House receptions he "loved to get upstairs and twist his face about. . . . He could make his ears move and elongate his face or broaden it in a perfectly ludicrous...
...When Mrs. Wilson "in desperation" asked her husband to accept the Hitchcock reservations to the Treaty of Versailles in order to get it ratified by the Senate and have "this awful thing settled," he replied: "Little girl, don't you desert me. . . . Better a thousand times to go down fighting than to dip your colours to dishonorable compromise...
Much distressed, the Air Corps quietly went to work on Capitol Hill to get Negro training killed or unload it on the Civil Aeronautics Authority before the rearmament bill is finally enacted...