Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perfectly good standing. More, he was Captain William S. Ortman, chief of the Capitol police, a body whose opinions on the behavior of statesmen should be intimately informed but is seldom solicited. He had attended several Dies hearings and "didn't think it was fair to let people get up and talk without proper evidence, so I stopped going. A lot of those witnesses were mentally ten years...
...disconcerted banqueting Veterans, their toastmaster hemmed: "Well, at any rate, we can be thankful that there is one country in the world where a man can get up on his feet and say what he thinks...
...citizens. Just what the response has been, neither German consular officials nor Nazi organizations now recruiting in the U. S. would say last week. Inquirers had some luck in Milwaukee, only because a local Nazi was so indiscreet as to recruit too many at one time and get himself into the newspapers...
...Welfare Department's contract with Robert & Co. Representative Delacey Allen baldly accused Chip Robert of "stealing" $45,000 of the taxpayers' money, snorted: "I am reliably informed that cities and counties all over Georgia were told by Mr. Robert and his representatives that if they wanted to get Federal funds for their public projects they had better employ Robert & Co. ... His agents went over the United States telling folks the same thing...
...France and Britain this condition seemed not only a reasonable but a necessary one. The French Government is anxious to get the 380,000 Spanish refugees now in France back into Spain. Moreover, wholesale executions and arrests following a surrender arranged by the French and British Governments might be embarrassing to Mr. Chamberlain and M. Daladier at home...