Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington; one of the finest likenesses ever produced, if contemporary portraits are to be believed. And there is no doubt about its nakedness, which I hope won't shock any one at home. I am going to propose to my colleagues that we make an immediate effort to obtain the originals and the right to reproduce them in Italian marble...
...prominent member of Congress during the last session made a statement that, if 60 additional 'wet' Congressmen were elected next November, it would then be possible to modify the Volstead Law. It will be the effort of the Association to obtain these 60 additional votes...
...State Department announced that pending an enquiry, begun under the direction of Under Secretary Joseph Grew, Acting Secretary of State in the absence of Charles E. Hughes, no formal action will be undertaken to obtain redress by the U. S. Government...
Dean Roscoe Pound of Harvard University Law School: Differentiated between law as "the regime of social control through legal institutions" and law as "the body of legal precepts which obtain for the time being in a particular society." Declared most social and economic progress had come about through discontent with law of the latter definition. Urged further continuous creative effort to keep legal precepts abreast of the times, thus assuring further progress...
...Spring season and the poor prospects of the corn crop, however, completely turned the tables. The visible supply is small, and Mr. Cutten and his associates are reported to control most of it. The unfortunate "shorts" are now paying through the nose by bidding up the price, to obtain corn from the farms to cover their short commitments...