Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President conferred once more with Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Joe Kennedy, God-sped him back to his post two weeks ahead of schedule. Foreign policy, meantime, was a hushed subject. To a press conference which got after him again about the sale of prime air power to foreigners, Franklin Roosevelt exploded with characteristic trick humor...
...Heflin, who mortally hated & feared the "Pope of Rome,"* Catholicism was brought forward as an issue in U. S. life. There can be no doubt that religious intolerance was a large factor in Al Smith's defeat. Since 1928, Pius XI's U. S. priesthood has got in some good licks on anti-Catholic sentiment. So skilfully have they stimulated U. S. reaction against that year's campaign of whispering and Heffling that the atmosphere has intangibly but perceptibly changed. If Jim Farley should run for President next year, the inevitable whispering about the Pope...
...stirred was Utah's ordinarily placid New Dealer Elbert Thomas that a "vision" came to him in bed. He got up at 2 a. m. to write a speech which he delivered next day in the Senate. "To attempt to coerce is fatal, to attempt to outwit is disastrous," thundered Senator Thomas. "Presidents will continue to be made and unmade in the actions of the Senate of the United States." When Senators rushed up to thump Elbert Thomas' back, congratulate him, invite him to lunch, he weakly smiled that he wanted to go home...
...earmarks. In the first place, he was almost constantly in love. Arrogant and tactless, without any graces of appearance or manner, he nevertheless completely vanquished the Venetian belles. He spent fortunes on fashionable clothes, he took dancing lessons, he was often at court-in short, he got around; and one friend once said of him that he could make a conquest "very difficult if not impossible for an Adonis." But when he proposed to the beautiful Magdalena Willmann, she laughed and termed him ugly and half crazy...
...mile combine got off to an early lead, but Manhattan forged ahead to win by a 40 yard margin. It was only in the final lap, however, that Ros Brayton, Crimson anchorman, was hiped by Curtis Giddings...