Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crude oil production is adequately controlled by the Interstate Oil Compact, lack of control over refining has upset crude prices (TIME, Oct. 24). Saying he was against Government control, Mr. Roosevelt suggested extending the compact to refiners, offered to ask Congress to approve such an extension. As Colonel Thompson took this thought back to the mid-continent oil fields, the industry bitterly noted that the previous day the Anti-Monopoly Committee had launched a sweeping investigation into all present forms of refiner cooperation...
That Whitman was a democrat everybody knows. But nobody has shown as clearly as Mr. Arvin what Whitman's democracy meant: stump speeches for the luckless Martin Van Buren, support for Tyler the Whig when Tyler took up Andrew Jackson's old fight against the United States Bank, disgust with party politics during the Democratic sellout before the Civil War, and always "strong images of a democratic and equal life-of 'ordinary' men and women working, building, making things, growing things, sailing ships, fighting battles, eating and drinking, singing, marching." Whitman was no Utopian socialist, says...
...Last year they got Fred Healy, now indicted, appointed WPAdministrator in place of Lee Rowland, a friend of their political opponent, Governor Clyde Tingley. The warm-blooded Senator warned people not to condemn his friends and relatives before they had their day in court; meantime, his son-in-law took the "advisable" step of "separating himself" from the Department of Justice...
...solely as "Professor Eduard Benes" that the surviving Founder of Czechoslovakia last week went with Mme Benes to the Prague airport. No Czechoslovak official higher than a passport inspector was present to say good-by as the ex-President and Mrs. Benes took off for England, whence in a few weeks he sails to become Professor Benes of the University of Chicago...
Last year White House newshounds took Franklin Roosevelt to task for granting New York Timesman Arthur Krock an exclusive interview. Meekly the President put his "head on the block," promised it wouldn't happen again. Last week the Times's Anne O'Hare McCormick again broke into the White House manger, carried off another exclusive interview running to three and a half Sunday Magazine pages. Growled Earl Godwin, president of the White House Correspondents' Association: "I wonder how many necks the President...