Word: getting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anyway, I'm against any revision of the thing via emotion. The Eighteenth Amendment was swept in by emotion. Governor Smith wants to get a change by emotion, inspired by his magnetic personality and popular appeal. I'd much rather trust the question to a mind like Hoover's, that will get the facts...
...moonshining one of the big, safe, profitable institutions. . . . The fanatical fervor of the Anti-Saloon League for the bone-dry law that has popularized drinking and upset our nation-old standard of respect for law, is due to the financial rewards they pay themselves out of the money they get for falsely representing that Prohibition is an unqualified success...
...worst thing that could happen to this country would be a step backward in our fight against liquor. . . . Such a change [repeal of the 18th Amendment] would be a calamity, but there's no possibility of it. As for present enforcement conditions, we manage to get along well enough at Detroit, although we are next door to Canada. Personally I'd turn out the army and navy to stop bootlegging...
Concluding with a reference to finance, Jonkheer Beelaerts said: "In 1924 we obtained an American loan of $40,000,000 which will be repaid in 1929. That loan was raised in America not because we could not get money in Holland, but as a matter of deliberate policy...
Despite such positive disclaimers of mystery, the London press persisted. The Daily Express found its reporters "rebuffed in all attempts" to get information. But lynx-eyed newsgatherers discovered "a complete secretariat" and a number of other (unnamed) oil officials concealed in the castle, or, more mysteriously, "in its neighborhood...