Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South Dakota's Republican gubernatorial contest, Miss Gladys Pyle, now Secretary of State, led a field of four men by 3,000 votes. As she did not obtain the 35% of the total vote required for nomination, the choice will go to a State convention next week, where she is likely to be selected. Miss Pyle, 39, with brown curly hair, has a head full of reform ideas to be executed if she reaches the Governor's office at Pierre...
...Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen in the June 17 primary, sat in his Englewood home pondering Prohibition, preparing his first campaign speech for delivery this week at Newark, in which he was expected to declare either Wet or Dry. Should Mr. Morrow go Wet like Mr. Frelinghuysen, Drys hoped they could obtain a candidate to their liking in the person of Representative Franklin Fort, good Hoover friend, onetime secretary of the Republican National Committee...
Illinois Aftermath. Because to obtain the Republican senatorial nomination she had spent one-quarter of a million dollars, Illinois Democrats last week resolved that "whereas the alleged nominee, Ruth Hanna McCormick, cannot be seated in the U. S. Senate, she is now an illegal and ineligible nominee." Democrats charged that expenditures in her behalf were really closer to one million dollars, pointed with pride to the $35 reported as campaign expenses of their candidate, James Hamilton Lewis, "the only legal nominee for U. S. Senator...
...work through churches. . . . We hold meetings and agitate through literature. The agitation rests on the basis that alcohol is a habit-forming drug and should be suppressed. . . . Sometimes we interview Senators and Representatives. . . . We don't write bills [for Congress]. . . .We obtain reports about candidates for appointments and give the President the information. . . . We never permit the League to be maneuvered into assuming responsibility for any appointee...
...electing Economics as their field for intensive study under the impression that they will there get the fundamental foundation for a successful business career. Colleges were founded to broaden the young man before he enters on his specialized life work. Thus men who concentrate in Economics to obtain direct preparation for business are under a necessarily narrowing influence and miss what college is supposed to give them...