Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago, at the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, cussing and fisticuffing discouraged subsequent attempts. This year, the U. S. Government stepped in with a healing offer of free transportation. So last week G. A. R. and U. C. V. tried again at Gettysburg. This time they got on beautifully, for the men were exceedingly...
...failed, to jail in 1934 for openly levying on Relief clients for his campaign funds), called a demagogue by his opponents, a champion by his friends, is a potent vote getter. Mr. Langer, once Mr. Nye's good friend, called him a Peace "racketeer," a Washington nonentity who got nothing for his State. Mr. Nye, who has built up his own Progressive Republican machine after surrendering the old Non-Partisan League to Mr. Langer, retorted that the Langer administration at Bismarck was full of graft. One mistake Mr. Langer made: he quarreled with able Representative William Lemke of Frazier...
...With a considerably curtailed wheat crop, with Fascist finances in none-too-good shape, Italy is impatient for the day when she can receive a British loan. So in Rome last week British Ambassador Lord Perth and Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano, Dictator Mussolini's son-in-law, got together. Lord Perth suggested that the Italian Government use its "discreet influence" with Generalissimo Franco to stop the bombings. Realizing that continued attacks might cause his good English friend to lose his job, Italy's dictator decided to "advise" his Spanish friend to: 1) respect the Union Jack...
Early this, year B. & O. needed cash. Its charges have zoomed steadily for years, now total $32,000,000 annually on fixed obligations of $674,000,000. In January, B. & O.'s resourceful President Daniel Willard got an $8,233,000 RFC loan through his good friend, RFC Chairman Jesse Jones. To get it he had to put up all his available collateral-including the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, which has not been used for shipping since 1923. Last week, B. & 0. again needed funds to meet $1,700,000 in interest payments due first of this month. No less...
...boyish heart and head felt it in every minute cell." A year later, at the height of her fame, she quit the stage to marry the heir to a large Georgia plantation, handsome, dilettante Pierce Butler (no kin to Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler). Their marriage started badly, and got worse. When Fanny refused to compromise with social conventions, Pierce agreed with his family, who thought he had married beneath him. When Fanny published her U. S. travel impressions, which made a scandalous success, her in-laws' opinion was echoed even...