Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Illinois; heard that, to fill the vacancy, Governor Henry Horner had appointed James Michael Slattery, 60, chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission, pink, parbald product of the Chicago Democratic machine, campaign manager for Governor Horner and Senator Scott Lucas. Son of a coal-yard foreman, Jimmy Slattery early got on the city pay roll, became secretary of the late Senator Lewis' new law college (Webster), begat eleven children, never won an election for himself...
Grand Duke of Coshocton: "Now, John, no double-crossing. We've got to stick together in order to stay apart. If we let anyone bring us together we're sunk...
...better known as the 55 Guards. Their primary function at first was to guard the Führer. First 55 leader was the late Julius Schreck, the Führer's adjutant and chauffeur. In the next four years the leadership was changed three times; in 1929 Himmler got his crack at the job and the organization began to hum. He and it have hummed ever since...
...remove General Werner von Fritsch, then Commander-in-Chief of the Army, from his job by charging homosexuality. The General was ousted-for other reasons-but in the face of the plain truth that he was definitely not homosexual, the Army demanded and got General von Fritsch's public exoneration...
...young, pretty German-Mexican wife, Frida Kahlo, a painter in her own right, put Trotsky in the blue-washed, bougainvillea-covered house in Coyoacán where she had been born, told him to stay as long as he wanted. At first the Trotskys and the Riveras got along beautifully. Diego Rivera issued a furious pro-Trotskyist manifesto to the world. Léon Trotsky settled down to the first peace he had had in years. Frida Rivera painted a picture of herself holding a little scroll on which was declared her love for Léon Trotsky...