Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baiting U. S. Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer, last January got the Soviet-made Baltic Deputy banned. Ever since then, said she, Communists (especially "a dark, unshaven man with a short, horrible cigar in his mouth") have tracked her, muttered threats, once threw acid at her, tried to get into her hotel room. Cracked Liberal Lawyer Louis F. McCabe, who is carrying the cinema ban to the State Supreme Court: "A woman as charming as Mrs. Palmer might be annoyed by mashers at any time. Possibly she mistook their motives...
...Harrisburg, Ill., 23 miles away. The great Ohio Basin flood had cut them off from their nearest municipal neighbors and the world. As the flood waters rose, a Harrisburg ham (amateur short-wave operator), Robert Tompkins Anderson, volunteered to set up an observation post as near as he could get to Shawneetown and establish two-way radio communication with relief agencies that were trying to bring help...
...year Mr. Jackson's department had been investigating the connection between the Big Three motor-makers (Ford, General Motors, Chrysler) and the Big Four auto-financing companies (General Motors Acceptance Corp., Commercial Credit, Universal Credit Corp.. Commercial Investment Trust). The Assistant Attorney General was trying to get criminal indictments against them for violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. But Judge Geiger discharged the grand jury when he discovered that attorneys for the companies were trying to settle with Robert Jackson out of court...
...usually takes an organization of independents to get the Attorney General's office started. In the Madison Oil Case (see above) it was the National Oil Marketers' Association. In the auto case it was the American Finance Conference...
...link with an uncommonly honest and brilliant, if uneven, vigor; almost, as in her other eleven novels (God's Stepchildren, et al.), writes a first-rate book. Mainly she fails through too much haste. (Her biographies -Cecil Rhodes, General Smuts-took a whole year to write. Her novels get themselves written in a month...