Word: takings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...post office, wondered why they had not demanded one. "What have we got?" he asked, "we have got a little over a year left," went on to explain that the next Administration might not provide a post office, and that if Warm Springers demanded hard enough, he might take Jim Farley by the neck "and squeeze a new post office...
...skates down the historic hallways, walked on stilts up the circling stairways, with Father egging them on, often whooping it up ahead of them. Less like his father than the other children, but his father's favorite, Kermit followed in Father's boisterous wake, but liked to take books out of the Library of Congress and read while Archie and Ted played, argued with the whole White House staff. Father interrupted his studies at Harvard by taking him along as official photographer on the African game hunt in 1909. Out of college, he sailed away with Father...
...York City, breast-beating Columnist Hugh S. Johnson, roaring like any sucking dove, nominated Utility Tycoon Wendell Willkie as a good 1940 G. O. P. possibility. Said Mr." Willkie wryly: "If the Government continues to take over my business, I may be looking for some kind of a new job. General Johnson's is the best offer I have...
...denied that he had asked Mrs. Camp to marry him, said that Mrs. Camp was too much of a lady to take a proposal after a few days' acquaintance. Mr. McCarthy whipped out a Kuhn letter: "Florence : I am terrible in love with you. I beg you to become my beloved wife. I will always be true...
...family's chronic ailment, gout, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain appeared last week in the House of Commons for the first time in a fortnight. One of the first questions asked him was by Labor Leader Major Clement Richard Attlee: What steps did the Government propose to take to combat Germany's ruthless new Minenkrieg (mine warfare)? Mr. Chamberlain's reply startled the House and jarred the sensibilities of several nations. The Government, he said, would shortly authorize the Royal Navy to seize not only contraband goods suspected of going into Germany, but all "exports of German...