Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bring the Reich to any sort of terms. Since Britain annually buys $49,440,000 more goods from Germany than she sells, all she had to do was to clamp on exchange clearing control, deduct the debt payments from British money owed German exporters. Germany acted before this got beyond the threat stage...
They seemed so bizarre that hard-working Director Ladislaus Moholy-Nagy thought long before he decided to let the public examine them. But visitors who studied explanations of the work, discovered that the exhibit made sense, got a good insight into the methods by which Moholy-Nagy and his associates hope to revitalize U. S. architecture and U. S. design...
...Ph.D. at Columbia's Teachers College. A War veteran and member of the American Legion, Professor Gellermann had written a copiously documented but partisan analysis of the Legion.* Its sponsor was Teachers College's leftist Professor George Sylvester Counts. Last year, typewritten copies of this document got scant attention from the press. But last week, as the National Education Association gathered in .Manhattan (see col. 3) and the first copies of Dr. Gellermann's work came from the printers, an enterprising New York Times reporter mixed the two ingredients, produced an explosion...
Octogenarian Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Harvard's ex-president (1909-1933), has spent a long and active life disproving the axiom that a burned child dreads the fire. The scalding he got when he protested Louis D. Brandeis' appointment to the U. S. Supreme Court for "lack of judicial temperament" did not deter him from getting himself into hot water again by proposing a quota for Jewish students at Harvard and barring Negroes from freshmen dormitories. He went on to become embroiled in the Sacco-Vanzetti case as the target of libertarians' scorn. Last year, when he demanded...
...Count, whom she is trying to divorce in Denmark, had threatened her with bodily harm. The Count, in Paris, ordered his luggage packed, took train and boat to London. Scotland Yard officials politely whisked him to famed old Dickensian Bow Street Police Court, where his lawyer, Norman Birkett, who got the Duchess of Windsor her divorce from Mr. Simpson, asked to have the case postponed. Agreeing, the Chief Magistrate stipulated that: The Count must: 1) not try to see his wife; 2) refrain from toting a gun; 3) post $10,000 bail. Meanwhile, Countess Babs had made their two-year...