Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power") Williams, Assistant Administrator David K. Niles. Before them David Lasser interrogated 50 WPA workers brought on for the occasion from 26 States. One & all declared that WPA wages are too low to keep body & soul together, that they would leave Relief like a shot if they could get private jobs. They also attested that whether or not Reliefers are becoming a permanent class in the U. S., they are certainly becoming a caste apart-shunned as poor credit risks by insurance companies, doctors, landlords...
...Frank Hayes, who eight years ago became the biggest political frog in Waterbury. Mayor of Waterbury, he also became Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut and, though honest old Governor Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross, onetime dean of Yale's Graduate School, was too spry ever to let him get his hand on the highest State controls, he presided over the Senate in a style which, his accusers said, was lucrative as well as lordly...
Mayor T. Frank Hayes is a Democrat, one of the biggest and boldest ever seen in Connecticut. His arrest, along with his controller, Daniel J. Leary, his secretary, Thomas P. Kelley, and several other Waterbury officials, resulted from Mr. Leary's failure (by 33 votes) to get re-elected last year. The Republican who got in soon told the State's Attorney, who told the grand jury, that Hayes, Leary & Co., "a small but powerful, ruthless and corrupt group of men." had been running Waterbury's affairs "for personal financial gain and political advancement" at a cost...
...Schacht had been dispatched to England: 1) to persuade those interested in getting the Jews out of Germany to pay a "ransom" in the form of increased purchases of German goods; 2) to stave off Britain's threat to "fight Germany at her own game" for the trade in Central Europe and South America; 3) to get Britain to buy more from Germany than she has been doing...
...child's, and in Walter White's view the court's ruling that Negroes must have equal educational opportunities means that the South must establish parity in expenditures from top to bottom of its school system. Realist White observed: "We still have a struggle ahead to get the States to obey the court's mandate...