Word: getting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four years ago, when Emil Hurja was a Democratic statistician quietly estimating how many votes his boss would get for the Presidency, his staff in Washington included a young man named James Twohey. It was Mr. Twohey's job to analyze newspaper opinions, turn them into charts and figures for Mr. Hurja...
...riding is his specialty), earns about $6,000 a year, expects to retire at 35. But unlike most career cowboys, he does not plan to buy a cattle ranch when his bucking days are over. Instead, he hopes to run either a nightclub or a dude ranch. "I can get along with dudes," says he. "All you have to do is let them have their...
...this dole was George C. Heidelberg, 60, supervisor of student employment, uncle of the owner of the Heidelberg Hotel, where Huey Long used to live. One day two months ago George Heidelberg hailed a cabdriver, told him to drive to a saloon. Said he: "I'll have to get mighty drunk to do what I'm going to do this afternoon." Three saloons later, Mr. Heidelberg confided to an L. S. U. sophomore that he was mighty worried about complaints against him that had been made to Acting President Paul M. Hebert. Thereupon George Heidelberg rode home...
...get NYA jobs, L. S. U. students had to get politicians' recommendations...
...Brickner. Remarkable is the case of "D," a 77-year-old college professor, who, when he opened his eyes in the morning, was often assailed by a violent hurricane of fantastic, guilty and obscene thoughts. Although he would try with all his might, D would be unable to get a sane thought in edgewise." Sometimes within half an hour, often within a day, his brainstorms would abate, leaving him depressed but self controlled. Strangely enough, he had no convulsive movements, would lie passively in bed while racked by his thoughts. These brainstorms, believes Dr. Brickner, are convulsions of ideas, similar...