Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...satisfaction Senator Barkley did get before the Relief bill finally passed out of his hands to conference with the House. To Senator Hatch's amendments strengthening the House provisions against Politics-in-Relief, he added a clause making it illegal for any person to solicit campaign money from any Government employe, local, State or Federal, any part of whose pay comes from a Congressional appropriation. This was in memory of the Federal-aid highway men with whom Governor "Happy" Chandler so bitterly fought Mr. Barkley for Kentucky's nomination last summer...
Last week lawyers' dislikes and worries about Judge Manton were sharpened by articles in the crusading New York World-Telegram which guardedly suggested his impropriety in helping a business associate get a $250,000 loan with the aid of lawyer Louis S. Levy, onetime partner of the late, lusty Lawyer-Speculator Thomas L. Chadbourne, and hinted at a sinister deal six years ago between Judge Manton and the firm of Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy in connection with the receivership proceedings of New York's Interborough Rapid Transit Co. (subway...
Last week C. I. O.'s Pacific Coast leader, Longshoreman Harry Bridges, whom patrioteers have tried to get deported as an alien and a Communist, wired President Roosevelt: "Nazi agents and sympathizers working on planes of the North American Aviation Company ... at Los Angeles, and on planes of the Consolidated Aircraft Company at San Diego, are engaged in wholesale sabotage. . . . Abundant evidence and official records now exist to prove these drastic charges...
...week and watch Hollywood whitewash the whole buryin' ground he's lyin' in. We're gonna see Tyrone Power grow a beard and act real tough. We're gonna see Lowell's. Nancy Kelly look mighty sweet. We're gonna watch Jesse live, 'n' love, 'n' fight, 'n' finally get mowed down by a skunk whose name ain't fit to be written down here. Mebbe we'll even enjoy ourselves...
...never saw much of George, his third guest, although lie had sent him the first invitation. George was one of those easy-going fellows who could get along with anyone. He always had the radio on when he worked so that he was really listening to the radio and not working...