Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Post Office. To astonished Warm Springers, well-pleased at the growth of their village, the President began talking about a new post office, wondered why they had not demanded one. "What have we got?" he asked, "we have got a little over a year left," went on to explain that the next Administration might not provide a post office, and that if Warm Springers demanded hard enough, he might take Jim Farley by the neck "and squeeze a new post office...
...North American Aviation announced record earnings of $1.47 a share, up $1.17 from 1938; a little later it got a $20,000,000 British order that virtually doubled its backlog. But North American shares marked time between...
...Author Hendrick is the fact that the South's Civil War statesmen represented the "new men" of the cotton belt, not the aristocracy of the Old South. Jeff Davis was born in a log cabin 120 miles from Lincoln's slightly smaller birthplace. Vice President Stephens got his start as a "corn dropper" on his father's small farm. Secretary of the Treasury Memminger, born in Germany, was brought up in a Charleston orphanage. Secretary of the Navy Mallory helped his mother in a Florida boardinghouse. Secretary of State Benjamin was the son of a Jewish fishmonger...
That tradition got off to a flying start with the fight against the colonial laws of primogeniture and entail, which permitted handing down intact such estates as that of the Van Rensselaers (3,000 farms, 436,000 acres). Far more complicated is Author Myers' tracing of that tradition in the struggle against "corporation aristocracy" and inherited wealth. From Andrew Jackson v. the Bank of the U. S. down, it is a fight in which inherited wealth wins the battles and loses the war. Value of Author Myers' documentation is that he keeps his eye on the whole...
...eyed, gifted Prince Potemkin, best-beloved among Catherine's shoals of lovers, "looked not unlike Charlie Chaplin." He got away and took a rest from passion whenever he could. Tableau of "the broad Russian nature": Potemkin, at the battlefront, in his underground palace, amusing himself, between attacks of acute melancholia, with concubines, an orchestra, guitars...