Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newshawks asked if he would carry Mrs. Ickes across the threshold when they got home. "Nothing doing!" said Mr. Ickes. Said athletic Mrs. Ickes: ''After all the French pastry I've been eating, I don't think he could...
...telephone, dictated a 25-word statement to his secretary in Albany: "If my party desires me to be a candidate for the office of U. S. Senator to succeed Senator Copeland, I will accept the nomination." Some leaders rejoiced, others fumed. Franklin Roosevelt and Postmaster General Farley got together for a hasty conference. But such are the rules of party politics that, by his adroit and well-timed move, Governor Lehman had practically appropriated for himself one place on the ticket which the Roosevelt Administration had counted on disposing...
...years insurance circles have gossiped about the selling exploits of James Roosevelt: how, after his father's nomination in 1932, the fortunes of his lanky eldest flowered like the lilies in paradise. This week a number of those anecdotes are told publicly in a story, "Jimmy's Got It" by Alva Johnston appearing in the anti-Roosevelt Saturday Evening Post...
...Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., Consolidated Oil Corp., Armour & Co., West Indies Sugar Corp., Hayden, Stone & Co., North American Co.-were added to the long and varied list. "He got the Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. business away from one of the old-established air insurance firms and split it with Fred Roper. Fred is the son of Daniel C. Roper, Secretary of Commerce-in charge of the regulation of aeronautics...
Author Roberts gives Deterding plenty of credit for winning the Allies' war. Sir Henri's part in the post-War oil scramble was less heroic. The U. S. S. R. nationalized the Baku oilfields and Sir Henri never got over it. He began to fulminate against the Bolsheviks in the press and. Author Roberts implies, to plot against them in secret. But the Bolsheviks were too smart for him. Author Roberts thinks his backing of Hitler and his admiration for Mussolini are based on his hatred of Communism, which was born of frustration when he lost...