Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dishonorable); and Eleanor Post Hutton, stepdaughter of General Foods Corp. Board Chairman Edward F. Hutton, granddaughter of the late Cereal Tycoon Charles William Post; in Manhattan. The 1930 marriage was declared invalid by Referee John M. Tierney because Mr. Sturges' first wife, Estelle Mudge Godfrey Sturges Daugherty, had gotten a Mexican divorce which "isn't worth a last year's bird nest." Sued. By Richard Wayne, onetime cinemactor: Mrs. Antoinette Converse Wayne, Iowa steel & banking heiress; for $300,000 advance allowance under a contract by which Mrs. Wayne agreed to pay Mr. Wayne $1,000 a month...
...called "some giblet-like mixture of glands." The A. M. A. further claims that Candidate Brinkley has been arrested for bootlegging, indicted in California for medical malpractice, that the license under which he was permitted to practice first in Arkansas, then in Kansas, was gotten through diplomas from a defunct, unrecognized school and a notorious "mill." But the State Attorney General's office was flooded with letters of protest when Dr. Brinkley's license was revoked in 1930. In 1930 the Federal Radio Com- mission refused to renew his license to operate KFKB on the grounds of "obscenity...
What did Boss Koenig get? Despite denials, even Republicans were sure that Tammany had been gotten to promise to withhold enough votes from Governor Roosevelt in the national election to let New York go for Herbert Hoover...
...that class of Democratic Senators who denounce the Republican policy of protection in general and then support it on local specifications. He joined the Democratic combination that log-rolled into the Revenue Bill the oil and coal duties but stood out against the copper and lumber items which were gotten in by similar methods. Into his mouth during the 1930 tariff fight Democratic Pressagent Charles Michelson put many a thunderous phrase against the Hawley-Smoot Act which today sounds hollow and insincere. He has also been active for Federal relief for the growers of dark tobacco in his State...
...office next to President Hoover's. It was Edward T. ("Ted") Clark, longtime confidential secretary to Calvin Coolidge. Unannounced, Theodore ("Ted") Joslin, the President's No. 1 secretary, had departed overnight for an indefinite vacation and Ted Clark had been called in to substitute. President Hoover could hardly have gotten a better man to help him through the ardors of the campaign...