Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Workers Alliance of America, union of unemployed and relief workers, decided last spring to hold its fourth annual convention in Cleveland, where people who could not get relief were then fighting in the streets for food (TIME, May 16). Last week 500 Alliance delegates assembled in Cleveland's Public Auditorium. They did not look like darlings of Harry Hopkins or anybody else. Some were ebony Negroes from the South. Nearly all had an air of shabby insecurity. All showed fight...
Most widely celebrated Massachusetts campaign was that of Patrolman Thomas Leary of Cambridge. Nominated without his knowledge or consent to be a delegate to the Democratic State Convention, barred by police rules from running for office, he campaigned vigorously ("Be wary of Leary") to get himself defeated (TIME, Sept. 26). When the returns showed him elected last week by 59 votes over his nearest opponent, he indignantly demanded a recount...
...London at midnight Prime Minister Chamberlain, who saw as the crux of the matter the issue of whether Germany would get Sudetenland at once or after the formality of international negotiation, declared...
Geneva newshawks spent the week pecking their hardest at Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff in efforts to get him to say that, even if France did NOT aid Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union would do so anyhow. In a very long speech Commissar Litvinoff went no further than to divulge that the Red Army Staff had recently been anxious to join the French & British Army Staffs in conversations about how joint action could be taken against Germany. Although repeatedly complaining that the Red Army had not been invited to sit in, the Soviet Commissar answered at no time during...
...traveling salesmen in Germany must be Aryans, decreed that the licenses of all Jewish sales representatives in the Reich, which expire this week, cannot be renewed. These licenses correspond to the labor permits issued by the Labor Front, which every employe, German or Jew, must have before he can get...