Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thanksgiving greeting to read aloud: "I am grateful that I live in a country where all leaders can sit down . . . and carve up a turkey instead of carve up a map." Correspondents noted that his tongue and temper, raspy when he left Washington, were improved. When he took occasion to tell "his other State" (Georgia) that it really must amend its laws so as to permit it to borrow funds from PWA like the rest of the States, he did so without being sharp or sarcastic...
...Negro delegates took their herding quietly. But before the Conference dispersed, after establishing itself as a permanent, continuing body, a signal resolution was passed without dissent: no future meetings for Human Welfare shall be held in any city having a Jim Crow...
...purchase of Tennessee Electric Power Co., one of four C. & S. operating subsidiaries in the Tennessee Valley. But, well aware that the committee was winding up its labors on a report that will have the attentive ear of Congress when it convenes next month, Utilitarian Willkie took full advantage of his first good opportunity to shift the Power fight from the courts to the people's forum...
...York Herald Tribune Walter Lippmann, most statesmanly Jewish pundit in the U. S., took a sober and broad-gauge view of the situation. Said...
...post-Hammer Soviet management, finding its pencil-making falling each year a little further behind the Five-Year Plan, took to falsifying the Sacco & Vanzetti Pencil production figures, are now being tried for their group-crime...