Word: obtainment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Heflin tried to obtain the Forsyth County Court House at Winston-Salem, N. C., to hold an anti-Smith demonstration. But the County Commissioners refused to allow it. Senator Heflin, blatant bigot, would injure Winston-Salem's reputation and lower the prestige of North Carolina Democrats, they said...
...Hoover's effort to obtain a political delegation from the Vice President's Blue Heaven let us be as indifferent as the backwoodsman who, when urged to run to his cabin where a panther was fighting his mother-in-law, retorted, 'Why should I care what happens to a panther?' [Laughter...
...last week, the only female member of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. To find a similar business woman in the U. S. one must search out pretty, audacious Miss Peggy Cleary of Manhattan (TIME, April 2), the spinster-stockholder who bid $375,000, last fortnight, in an effort to obtain a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. In Amsterdam the buzz of tickers ceased to have meaning, last week, for Mevrouw Van Eeghen. Removed to a hospital, she lay at first unconscious, and later sphinxlike by advice of her attorneys. Her husband, forgotten by the press, had been a rich...
...things of which they know nothing, stupid persons and headline writers have had a merry time over "companionate marriage.* In the meantime, famed Benjamin Barr Lindsey, of Denver, onetime judge of the Juvenile Court, continues to preach, solemnly and with efficacy, his system of practical ethics, hoping eventually to obtain legislation that will make it practicable. He so preached last week in St. Louis, where an audience at the Coliseum heard him debate against jovial Lawrence McDaniel, a onetime Circuit Attorney...
Members of the Class of 1931 will have an opportunity today, tomorrow, and Thursday to obtain direct advice and information on their contemplated fields of concentration from Seniors and Juniors now in those fields. The plans of the Student Advisory Committee, as announced last night by T. H. Eliot '28, the chairman, place 25 upperclassmen at the services of the Freshmen, with about ten more names to be added tomorrow. This is the first time that Freshmen have been given an official opportunity to consult students on the courses in the various department...