Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them not to limit WPA construction projects to $25,000, not to kill the Theatre Project, not to believe that the Workers Alliance could dictate to him, not to cut his administrative cost allowance below 5%. He invited the committee to cross-question him, but when he finished, he got the silent treatment. Mr. Woodrum just said, "Thank you, Colonel, for your appearance," and sent the committee's bill to the printer...
...keep on good terms with good neighbors in Latin America, and turn bad ones into good ones, the U. S. lately has lavished foofaraw and funds on Brazil, Haiti, Nicaragua. Last week in Washing ton, Paraguay's President-elect José Félix Estigarribia got his share: a $500,000 credit to bolster the wavering Paraguayan peso, plus further loans to finance purchases of U. S. materials, machinery, services for Paraguayan roads and industry...
...present-day Soviet Russia, young mouths have a lot to say. Recently 24 students of the Timiryazeff Agriculture Academy in Moscow got hot under their proletarian collars, wrote a steaming letter to the Commissariat of Agriculture's official journal, which published the letter last week, under the headline: "Chase Formal Genetics from the Universities!" Charles Darwin was okay, the students said in effect, but Mendel and Morgan were way off the party line, if not downright counterrevolutionary. To capitalist hell with the Mendelian...
...sitting on either side of the fence, you ought to be in the Government." As upsetting to Scotland Yard tradition as he is to the belief that the British are essentially humorless, Actor Richardson seemed the likeliest character yet to carry on for justice in cinema since Bulldog Drummond got into the Grade...
From various U. S. Senators the Hazelton, Pa. Flying Club got some queer-sounding telegrams. From Nevada's Key Pittman: "Mildred arrived as storm broke. She is spending the night with me." From Colorado's Edwin Johnson: "The members of the office staff are taking turns sitting on it [a pigeon's egg] in the hope that something might happen." In his office California's Hiram Johnson shouted to his secretary: "Get this chicken out of here. It's raising hell." Explanation: as a publicity stunt arranged by the National Youth Administration each Senator...