Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Iowa case, Senator Herring was for Senator Gillette's renomination against Mr. Wearin. In Sioux City, where there were 4,000 WPA workers, Mr. Wearin got only about 300 votes...
...Happy") Chandler and Senator Barkley, who as Administration leader in the Senate is "Dear Alben" to the President. Grinning bumptiously, the young Governor plopped himself down between the President and Mr. Barkley in the official automobile. At the Latonia racetrack in Covington, before the speechmaking began, "Happy" Chandler got to the front of the platform for a lot of wisecracking and folksy gesturing until suppressed by Secretary Marvin Mclntyre. When the President's turn came, he frankly listed the hundreds of millions of dollars poured into Kentucky by the New Deal, flatly said: "I have no doubt that Governor...
...Federal Surplus Commodity Corp. got authority from Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to use its new $79,000,000 appropriation at once to buy surpluses of oranges, vegetables, peaches, flour, cereal products, to feed 2,000,000 needy families...
...home in the slums, planning improvements, and in his rich friends' boxes at race tracks, picking winners. He can talk with equal charm to dear old ladies and to glamor girls, can sit with groups of serious thinkers, or join the boys in the back room. Since he got rid of his stomach ulcer last December and recuperated at Ambassador Joe Kennedy's house in Palm Beach, he can eat and drink more freely than he has for years, and have more fun. Yet he still and often works long hours after his staff has gone home...
...acres, grew the huge total of 18,945,022 bales, had to fall back on Government loans, wound up with a carry-over sufficient to depress this year's prices. So Mr. Wallace invoked the powers-granted him in the new AAA, instituted drastic control, got a majority of farmers to approve by referendum. Last week Mr. Wallace's analysts announced the result: a cultivated acreage of 26,904,000, lower than any since the Department of Agriculture began to keep tabs in 1909, and a prospective crop of about 12,000,000 bales (unofficially indicated, because Federal...