Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With M. P.s sitting silent as if stunned, Sir John explained: "The Government took the very unusual course of acting without first applying for statutory authority, in confidence that the House of Commons would understand our reasons and would, in due course, enable us to obtain legislation conferring the necessary powers" to pay for all this food. It has been bought by ostensibly private British syndicates whose members have confidence in Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, a businessman whose reputation for commercial integrity is second to none...
Friends, an immediate succour for this, my treasure! Procure me now, obtain me now, fragrant scent, purest balsam, with speed of lightning...
...enthusiastic publicity. William Randolph Hearst signed an editorial denouncing atheism, and in Manhattan, where the first Brotherhood Day mass meeting was to be held in an armory, the New York Journal and American told how, inspired by this "powerful editorial warning," Protestant, Catholic and Jewish organizations were hurrying to obtain tickets. Headlines...
...adviser is equivocal, some idea of what constitutes one can be gained from the varied qualities demanded in his selection. The foremost qualification is interest in dealing with human beings; next come approachability, or the rare biological element of appeal, and insight into the total personality. To obtain response, an adviser must set up confidence through frankness, through fixing each man's aim and helping him to reach it. He ought also to gauge as best he can the attitude of the advisce toward his new environment. With these standards raised, there lingers the question of whom to select. Certainly...
There have been numerous cases recently in which political refugees who entered the United States improperly have been deported to the countries from which they have escaped. Others have been threatened with such deportation and at the last moment have managed, with great difficulty, to obtain permission to go to some other land. From the Manchester Guardian...