Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that motor trouble was forcing him to stop for gas. A big red car with "39" painted on the hood and tail was in front now. By looking at the programs the people in the stands made out that the driver was someone named Lou Meyer. Gullota who had gotten started again was a close second...
...Couzens was notified that his profit-tax payment of 1919 had been far from adequate; please to pay some $10,000,000 more. Senator Couzens charged that some one in the Treasury Department had been told to look up his back tax returns and see if anything could be "gotten on him." But the Treasury Department denied this and said that the 1919 Ford stock profit item had been called to its attention by a letter-writer. The Treasury said that the value of the stock in 1913, when the income tax first operated, should have been made the basis...
...Massachusetts note, said most observers, was simply a repetition of his original choice, coupled with a patient request to the G. O. P. not to come running to him before it had gotten hurt. His silence beyond this seemed to assure the party-and no statesman's silence was ever more eloquent-that if the party was really about to get hurt, he would be there, of course...
...more telling argument than any had been Lawyer Littleton's to the effect that a man like Sinclair, if he were going in for a conspiracy, would not have stopped at the trifling cost of $304,000; and Fall, if he were selling Teapot Dome, could easily have gotten more than a quartermillion...
...thank you," said the Candidate. "I've gotten along so far without flying and I guess I can continue. However, I suppose I will try it sooner or later...