Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Masses spoke stringy-haired James Maxton, most embittered of Scottish Laborites. "Many of us have asked in this House for bread for the poor," he cried, "and we have not gotten it. But you!" ? gesturing toward the Government Bench ? "Where it was a question not of bread but of this manuscript the thing was bought fast enough...
...many imps of spleen and spite have ever gotten under the armored skin of President von Hindenburg. But once a little clubfoot in his Nazi newsorgan taunted Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg with age, attacked him under the headline IS VON HINDENBURG STILL ALIVE?, charged without a scrap of evidence that "his advisers are Jews and Marxists." That was in 1930. The President, stung to rage as never before, brought suit and was awarded 800 marks ($185) for defamation from the imp who is now Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. Last week by a supreme...
First to renew operations was United Air Lines, which took over the mail this week on its old Northern Transcontinental and Pacific Coast routes. Ready to fly the Central Transcontinental mail was Transcontinental & Western Air, which had gotten back its contract by bidding at an almost suicidal rate. Likewise ready was Eastern Air Lines, which was awarded the Newark-Miami and Newark-New Orleans contracts...
...Haiti's present U. S. bondholders and rid his little republic of the U. S.'s watchdog, Sidney De La Rue. Financial Adviser-General Receiver of Haitian Customs. But the bankers wanted De La Rue on the spot to protect the refunding loan too. President Vincent had gotten exactly nowhere last week when he left Manhattan for Washington...
...hands to theatrical biographies of 19th Century lady authors. A year ago there was talk of producing in the U. S. Clemence Dane's Wild Decembers, a study of the Bronte's acclaimed in London. This possibility becomes more remote now that Playwright Totheroh (Distant Drums) has gotten his own story of the three weird sisters of Haworth on the boards. There would be no use selecting the same family twice to demonstrate the well-proven thesis that the library, not the theatre, is the proper setting for biographical research...