Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 earning...
Last week Senator Reed Smoot of Utah read Herber C. Hoover's report on flood conditions (see catastrophe) ; came to the conclusion that a special Congressional session, not later than Nov. 1, was "absolutely necessary if flood sufferers are to obtain prompt and adequate relief." It was recalled that Senator Smoot has been urging a special session for more than a month; that he is Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee; that even after perusal of the Hoover report he put the passage of the Deficiency BUI (filibustered out at the last session of Congress) as the first duty...
...virtual protectorate over Albania, the note of Dictator Zogu received the respect appropriate to a communication undoubtedly approved if not ordered written by Italian Dictator Mussolini. It declared that the national honor of Albania had been insulted by "brutal and unconciliatory demands" made upon Albania by Jugoslavia, recently, to obtain the release of a Jugoslav spy arrested and jailed in Albania...
...Premier Poincaré obtain "better terms" from the U. S.? One obstacle is that the U. S. Debt Funding Commission, having negotiated and signed debt-funding agreements with all nations indebted to the U. S., has officially terminated its existence. If France ever gets better terms from the U. S., she must get them from a new U. S. Commission especially created to give them to her by Congress. The only alternative would be to let the whole matter drop officially, and for the U. S. to accept from France, from time to time, such individual payments...
...English. A requirement for those who pass the English college board with a mark of 70 per cent or better has complicated rather than solved the problem. Confronted by the danger of having its students receive no more training in English literature and composition than just enough to obtain a creditable grade in a college entrance examination the Engineering School has decided to make one more advanced English course obligatory for all those who escape English...