Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time? If I had you, Gov'ner Neff, like you got...
...27th annual meeting. Turning its back on the Appeasement and the Administration (as the Administration has turned its back on the Chamber since 1934), the Chamber made a direct appeal to Congress for things that the New Deal won't give. It got no less than 300 Congressmen to come to its various dinners to hear a verbal barrage against That Man in the White House and all his works...
...Promoted to the important Foreign Relations Committee by his ex-colleague, New Deal purge victim John O'Connor, Sol Bloom has spent much of his time selling George Washington to the American people. But this time, after eating his way through an evening of Roosevelt-hating speeches, Sol got up to sell FDR to the folks. One lone, small boo came from the audience, but it found the one sensitive spot in his hide. The Blooms walked...
...working. It leaked out that 6,000 to 8,000 Fair employes check in as visitors every time they enter the grounds, thus raising the apparent daily attendance. When Perley Boone, the Fair's publicity chief, went to greet the millionth visitor, he forgot his ticket, got in only after a long struggle...
...Cincinnati's German-American burghers decided to have a big music festival. They got together the small singing societies in Cincinnati and nearby cities, invited famed Conductor Theodore Thomas to bring his own orchestra. The festival was such a rip-roaring success that it became the talk of every small town in the Midwest. Five years later, Cincinnatians decided that their festival needed a permanent home. So at a cost of $310,000 they built themselves what was then the largest and finest concert auditorium in the U. S. Today Cincinnati's enormous, ancient, many-spired Music Hall...