Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basic appeal is brutually direct. To smalltown bigwigs partial to Barkley he will say straight out, "By God, Jim, you've got to vote for me or I'll make it tough...
...Connell, now 29, was wearing long pants, Mr. Wheeler, 56, has been pilloried as a "reactionary" by O'Connell's clamoring about the votes Burton Wheeler cast against the President's Supreme Court plan and the Government Reorganization bill. Loud Mr. O'Connell, who got national publicity by baiting Boss Frank Hague of Jersey City about the latter's suppression of C. I. O. (TIME, June 13), went around among miners, lumberjacks, smelter workers and farmers, declaring that Franklin Roosevelt had told him to "fight like hell to defeat Senator Wheeler's machine...
...campaign promises, Governor-Nominate'' O'Daniel must find $42,000,000 a year to give every Texan over 65 a $30-per-month pension, and bring tax-wary industry flocking into Texas. Said he: "I'll just take it from the folks that's got...
...sycophant either to Franklin Roosevelt or C.I.O., Maury Maverick in two terms placed himself well to the left of the President, got into A.F. of L.'s bad graces by espousing much liberal legislation approved by C.I.O. At home, he rashly antagonized Mayor Charles Kennon Quin's San Antonio machine and the potent Irish-Catholic vote. Last week Attorney Paul Joseph Kilday-an Irishman, Roman Catholic and Quin machinist-beat Maury Maverick by 546 votes in 49,312 votes cast. Said Maury Maverick: "Lincoln got beat four times. I guess I can take it once...
This decree, coordinating and bringing up to date ordinances dating in Austria back to 1897, in Germany back to 1868, did not make bullish reading for German investors. They remember how in 1914 much German smart money took its prof its and got out of the market just before the War. Nazi newsorgans attributed last week's break to: 1) turning of securities into cash by German firms desirous of raising further working capital amid the Rearmament scramble; 2) forced sales by Jews squeezed in Vienna and elsewhere in Germany by fresh "Aryanization" measures, one of which excludes Jewish...