Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Democrats all. The three empty chairs were silent reminders of the fact that President Roosevelt had not yet gotten around to filling three Republican directorships. The business before the board was the election of a chairman, a post vacant since March 4 when bald, bumbling Atlee Pomerene, Hoover appointee, was forced out by the Senate's refusal to confirm his nomination. Together went the Woodin, Couch and McCarthy heads. When they came apart Jesse Jones, Houston publisher, realtor, banker, lumberman and promoter, found himself unanimously elected R. F. C. chairman. Chairman Jones has been...
...made the long trip for any other occasion-Mrs. James Roosevelt, 78, mother of the President of the U. S.- and from Florida had come Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison. They, with 21 other persons, were at Georgia's Mt. Berry on the tenth annual "Berry Pilgrimage'' gotten up and directed by a younger woman. Manhattan's Mrs. John Henry Hammond. Mrs. Hammond has taken 157 Berry Pilgrims to Georgia, to interest them in giving money and show them "the greatest humanitarian project being carried out in America." In 1901 Martha McChesney Berry, daughter of a socialite...
Finally the firemen admitted the rum ($45,000,000 worth) would have to burn itself out. The fire had gotten into the big vats below quay level, turned them into huge alcohol lamps. Watching goggle-eyed, several Londoners fell into the river...
...ridden over four times around the world in six-day bike races," declared Reggie McNamara, the "grand old man" of the sport who entered his ninety-fifth grind last night at the Garden, in an interview yesterday afternoon, "and it's gotten so that I feel better in a race than...
Last month Peasant Party Leader Nicholas Lupu charged that Skoda's agent, one Bruno Seltzski, had gotten the contract by lathering Rumanian Army officers and politicians with bribes. He charged too that Skoda had stirred up the whole war scare. As bribees he named Premier Alexander Vaida-Voevod's son and a nephew of the Finance Minister. This was still just Rumanian talk. Police had already searched Bruno Seltzski's house on the grounds he had not paid his taxes. When he refused to open his safe, they had closed it with official seals. When they returned...