Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Labor party and the National League are, perhaps, in worst shape. It was reported that the Laborites were at their wits' end to obtain enough cash to put up a strong fight, while the Nationalists, under Captain William A. Redmond, have so shocked the liquor interests, their main supporters, by aiding the Republicans and Laborites, in the Dail in the attempt to defeat the Cosgrave Government, that they are all but discredited...
...musician disappeared in the wilds of sea and mountains between Brunswick, Ga., and Rio de Janeiro. In his youth in Rochester, Paul Redfern studied music, dreaming of one day becoming a great figure in the world of opera & orchestra. At the threshold of his career he failed to obtain an expected orchestra engagement and turned from flutes to flying ships. After a curious itinerant career as a stunt flyer; advertising flyer; flying scout for the Prohibition service; small airport proprietor; he sought backing for a New York-to-Paris flight this year. He failed. Soon he appeared in Brunswick...
Soon Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover will make another tour on the Mississippi Valley to obtain final information concerning flood relief and flood control legislation for submission to Congress...
Naturally the opposite view was taken by Bolivian officials at La Paz, where Minister of Public Works Zacarias Benavides solemnly declared "Communists are responsible for this outbreak. They have incited the Indians to establish the supremacy of their race and obtain the ownership of all land...
...could a man, stranded penniless in Asbury Park, N. J., obtain the cash round-trip fare to Manhattan within a few moments, and without stealing, begging or earn...