Word: getting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confer with Mr. Hoover on farm relief and on the possibility of an extra session of Congress. Finally it was just possible that Mr. Hoover had found too much for him the task of making up a cabinet miles away from everybody. Maybe he was returning to Washington to get some suggestions. Remote aboard the Utah, Mr. Hoover offered no specific explanation...
Last week, these desires were strangely inter-vexed. Mr. Vare was observing his 61st birthday in Atlantic City, N. J., when a message arrived summoning him to appear again before Senator Reed's investigating committee in Washington, D. C. The Reed strategy was this: get the Senate to take up the Vare case again, and since discussion of a Senator's seat is a subject of highest privilege, this postpones and perhaps prevents the ratification of the Kellogg-Briand Treaty...
...behind piney Georgia, whose output is more than a billion board-feet per annum. And, though few people know it, huge herds of beef cattle range the plains of Florida's northern interior. Many a Texas steer, like many a tired tycoon, goes to Florida to get...
...Churches for Old (1922) he urged: get rid of theology, develop in its place a conception of religion as a social fellowship. He is against war and whiskey...
...American Locomotive Co. at Pittsburgh needed a works manager. The Great Western's superintendent of motive power, well-paid though he was, concluded that, without executive experience, a mechanical man can get just so far and no further in railroading. Moreover, building engines for sale interested him more than buying engines and keeping them running until they died of old age. He took the Pittsburgh job, at a big drop in salary. The salary did not stay down long...