Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rankin was also at odds with the government. Not content with mere New Dealers, he jumped on Secretary of War Stimson, crying that Communists had been allowed to obtain commissions in the Army. He demanded Stimson's resignation, and put up the name of General George Patton for the job. The government, however, found it wise to disregard not only this piece of advice, but a staggeringly high percentage of the other suggestions Rankin offered in his brief tenure as de facto chairman of Dies' committee. In 1946, the Republican scoop displaced the Mississippian in favor of J. Parnell Thomas...
...order to obtain the ultra-sophistication required of a high fashion model, the judges had each entrant parade with a book upon her head. It was Gilson's "The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy...
Detjen suggested a new method which might enable the Red Book to obtain more advertisements, but he said that a full report would take considerable research and the rest of the term...
...present draft law is "unfair" President Conant charged Saturday, urging that the Selective Service Act "be drastically changed by the new Congress." But he added that any attempt to obtain exemptions for college students "would be grossly unfair and socially unwise...
OHIO: Registration for the election must be made IN PERSON. Previously registered voters may obtain absentee ballots by writing to the clerk of the County Board of Elections within 30 days of the election. Ballots must be notarized and returned before the polls close...