Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inasmuch as the labor law of the land postulates that a boss loves his workers for what he can get out of them, and that they need protection from his exploitation, George F. was distinctly on the spot last week. The Endicott Board of Trade (chamber of commerce) recently announced that since the Wagner Act forbids beloved George F. to speak up against brewing unionism, the businessmen who depend on E. J. pay rolls were going to speak up in his stead. The Board of Trade advised 18,500 E. J. workers to stay...
...bomb blew up last January in the automobile of one Harry Raymond, a private detective who had been hired by a group of reformers to get dirt on the administration of Mayor Frank L. Shaw. When the bomb was traced to two of Mayor Shaw's intimates on the police force, public indignation blew the mayor out of City Hall. In a special election in September, Los Angeles voters recalled seamy Mayor Shaw, installed curly-headed, cherubic Superior Judge Fletcher Bowron as his successor (TIME, Sept...
...Government is bent on sending it to the death house, has been fighting a rear-guard legal action with about as little success as Convict Tom Mooney. It has lost two major appeals in the Supreme Court. Last fortnight utility lawyers concluded a last-ditch attempt to get the currently New Dealish Supreme Court to reverse the "brutal doctrine of Chattanooga"-the opinion of a three-judge Federal Court this year that since TVA power sales are legal, utilities have no legal relief even from ruinous TVA competition. Last week from the death-house came a highly articulate croak...
John D. Rockefeller said: "I believe it is a duty for a man to get all the money he honestly can and to give all he can." Just how much Rockefeller did get is unknown, but in his long lifetime he gave $530,000,000 to individuals and institutions and even more to his own family (in 1921 John D. Rockefeller Jr. held $410,674,000 in Standard Oil stock alone). Of his devotion to his "duty," his old friend Marcus Alonzo Hanna said: "Sane in every respect but one-he is money mad." The new-minted dimes and nickels...
Farley $75,000, just enough to get him out of the debts incurred by him since going to Washington as Postmaster General at $15,000 per year. Book royalties ($5,000) will be velvet...