Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before his Manila junket, said the G-Men, Bondster Buckner had tried to get legislation through Congress which would have helped Philippine Railway Co. To help lobby his bills through, he threw a party for some Congressmen at the Carlton Hotel. To make it a real party, he flew five Broadway cuties down to Washington, including a morsel called Doris ("Peewee") Donalson...
...Simpson had raced to Washington by milk train and plane from Albany, after a night session of his State executive committee at which he had fought for the National Committee seat of Charles Dewey Hilles. retired. Mr. Simpson's failure to elect Tom Dewey by getting out a bigger New York City vote for him was one of the reasons the State committee was reluctant to nominate him for the national body. Other reason was the method he had chosen to get out such city votes as he did: he had "played ball" with the local American Labor Party...
This speech did not ask France to give Italy anything. It just happened to get interrupted by the whole Chamber, led by the two well-chosen scream-leaders. When screaming and speech were finished, the French Ambassador put on his top hat, adjusted his elegant monocle, and, smiling, drove away...
Optimum. There was reason to think that Italy, far from imagining that France can be bluffed into handing over Tunisia without a fight, much less into handing over Corsica, or Nice or Savoy, is trying mainly to get or keep other things. Il Duce in the past few weeks has already got France and Britain to recognize his conquest of Ethiopia. That is in the bag, and it was a big part of the original Hoare-Laval Deal (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935, et seq.). There are also the beautiful Spanish Isles, Majorca and Iviza, now effectively occupied by Mussolini...
...again by the World War, which began by the Austrians invading Serbia in 1914. Each time Prince Paul went home to take an officer's commission, each time he returned to study philosophy and literature at Oxford. The Oxford degree which Paul started out to get in 1910 was not granted him until...