Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...associate member of American Society of Civil Engineers, registered state engineer, World War veteran. Always have worked, always want to work. Am out of work because the organization which for 15 years I sweated for, swore by, and took pride in, turned into a political football. Will go anywhere. Want a chance to give unlimitedly of work and loyalty. Held a U. S. Civil Service rating as construction supervisor for several years but apparently Mr. Farley misplaced my address...
Then & there Harry Hopkins, cool and careful, took command of the situation. He met this attack on his weakest point with a drawling, good-humored retreat into modesty and sincerity, a patient implication that he knew this was a political trial. He let go several disarming bursts of frankness, several amusing lapses into sturdy slang. Said he: "If any one has had intimate experience with business in the last six years, it is I. I have bought and sold millions and millions of goods. I have negotiated with businessmen on hundreds and thousands of deals. I have always had employes...
Kidnapper Rufus McCain, Robbers Henri Young and William Martin surrendered. It took a bullet through both legs to stop Kidnapper Dale Stamphill. For Arthur ("Doc") Barker, kidnapping associate of Alcatraz' notorious inmate Alvin ("Old Creepy") Karpis, it took a shot in the head and death...
...urged him to commute the sentences of the five women's five sons, aged 19 to 27, who were doomed to die January 26 for committing murder in the holdup of a Manhattan gambling house.* When Governor Lehman had heard all, he solemnly shook the mothers' hands, took a last look into their five anxious faces (see cut), promised to ponder his decision...
...Roosevelt's $8,995,000,000 1940 budget appeared, conservative Democrat Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia issued an anticipatory blast at continued deficit financing. Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles replied to him in a letter that filled three newspaper columns (TIME, Jan. 2). Last week as Congress took a savage nibble at the President's special Relief budget (see p. 77), Senator Byrd replied to Mr. Eccles in six newspaper columns. Juiciest points of Byrd answers...