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Word: obtained (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conjunction with the nation-wide peace strike, a sub-committee of the Peace Committee of the Student Union has started work to obtain speakers for the meeting to be held here on April 22. According to the last fortnightly bulletin of the Union, the work is "with the blessing of Dean Hanford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Union Blessed | 3/24/1937 | See Source »

...carried his case to the public in speech, statement, advertising and labeling. In his brief to his stock-holders last week he argued principally on the ground of national safety. "In spite of war or drought, civil disturbance or disaster, the home refineries always have been able to obtain raw sugar in some quarter of the globe out of which to make the refined sugar requirements of the Nation," rumbled Mr. Babst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sweet Squawk | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...observed SEC last week: "The Commission of course . . . does not attempt to evaluate the significance of these interests ... or the fact that although many of such special agents . . . were the issuing bankers for the bonds in question, and despite their professed recognition of a moral obligation to attempt to obtain for the bondholders the best that was possible under the circumstances, they nevertheless sought and obtained better treatment of their claims than those of bondholders who may have looked to such issue houses for protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Black Art | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...notice eleven fractured ribs, a fractured jaw, fractured nose, hemorrhage of the brain, hemorrhage of the throat and internal hemorrhages. After a three-day investigation Pennsylvania's Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti concluded that Frank Monaghan had been "barbarously and brutally beaten to death in an effort to obtain a confession from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Second Degree for Third Degree | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...wrote: "Unlike most diplomats here, Mr. Davies is profoundly interested in industrial development as a result of his own work before and during the World War. To Soviet officials, whose middle name nowadays is Industrialization, this proves as attractive as it is unexpected, and they have asked him to obtain from Washington his "own reports, drawn up from 1911 to 1917, on the metallurgical and coal industries of the United States, and the costs of those industries in wartime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Red Notes | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

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