Word: got
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over and Senator Gooding and I broke away. We started out. The Senator from New Jersey [Edge] called me back and said: 'Do you know who you were between? You had Kuhn, Loeb & Co. on your right and Morgan & Co. on your left. Don't you think you got contaminated just a little...
...ability" (TIME, March 25). Out went Snook, in came A. C. Aderholdt, who first worked for Atlanta prison as a construction gang foreman in 1906, later as prison guard, as record clerk. Now, as warden, he is softspoken, reticent, diligently eludes publicity. But Mrs. Willebrandt, busily though she snooped, got nothing done about cattle-herding in the Federal prisons...
Last week Texan Howe got some more publicity by attacking Texan White on a question of prime importance to all professional Texans, namely: What does a Texas rattlesnake do when you go to blow its head off with your six-shooter? Texan White had written, old-style, that the snake will follow the movement of the gun-muzzle so closely with its head that you cannot fail to hit the snake's head when you pull the trigger. Texan Howe experimented, fired many a shot at many a Crotalus adamanteus atrox, missed their heads again and again, then angrily...
...potent was last summer's disclosure that "Raskobism's" loudest foe, Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, South, was himself messily involved with a Manhattan bucket-shop (TIME, July 1). At a South Georgia Methodist conference last week the Rev. Bascom Anthony of Thomasville, got a resolution adopted to reduce the tenure of service of Methodist Bishops from life to four years. Cried Mr. Anthony: "The church occasionally elects a misfit as a Bishop. Without mentioning any names I'll say we have one now. If he isn't a straight...
...Osceola, Ind., George Gulp and Harold Kirkpatrick each got 34 votes for town clerk & treasurer. They called upon a pair of dice to decide the will of the people. The dice chose Gulp...