Word: getting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went into the racket in Chicago four and a half years ago. During the last two years I've been trying to get out. ... I want peace. I'm willing to live and let live. I'm tired of murders and shootings.... I'm retired and living on my money...
...disaster extended not only throughout the U. S. but to Europe. The Lord Mayor of London telephoned to Mayor John Daniel Marshall of Cleveland to express sympathy. The editors of the London Sketch and Daily News telephoned to Managing Editor Thomas Aaron Robertson of the Cleveland News to get the details of the tragedy for their papers...
Hague supporters rioted jubilantly in the streets. The Reform headquarters were raided and wrecked. The morning after election Burkitt called to congratulate a Hague police captain at his station. Leaping to his feet, the officer met his well-wisher with "Now you lousy faker, get to hell out of here." Thereupon the "Jeffersonian Democrat" was shunted into the street, to be cursed and stoned by a Hague crowd...
...iron-hand-in-velvet-glove. Latin-Americans want a decisive personality at their head. They speedily take advantage of any of an executive's weaknesses. President Machado brooks no political opposition and has logrolled Cuba's political parties to his own support. Political opponents are told to get out of Cuba. Hence the presence in the U. S. of Cubans like Dr. Rafael Itturalde, onetime Secretary of War, and Octavio Seigle, business exile (TIME, April 29). Insurrectos are promptly squelched...
Because no patents are obtainable, Packard is guarding its new product until it can get into production and thus "get the jump" on the rest of the industry. To that end the company has already started a special 300,000 sq. ft. factory and scheduled future production. And in anticipation of new profits Packard motor car stock last week began ascending...