Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peace officers, including Sheriff (now ex-Sheriff) Theodore Middleton, who had told Senator La Follette "a lot of violence has been committed by my deputies." Last week Mr. Middleton and his co-defendants jammed a good portion of the tiny, oval courtroom. With lawyers, underlings, and visiting newspapermen, they took up so much space that hundreds of languorously curious country folk could not get inside...
...because of its own factional revolutions. Assigned to China by the Red International of Labor Unions in 1927, Comrade Browder returned to New York in 1929, married a blonde Russian. In 1930 his party mentor and patron, General Secretary Foster, was ill and out of commission. So Comrade Browder took over the job as U. S. Communists' strategist-in-chief...
...second as Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, husky, ruddy Democrat T. Frank Hayes last October got a setback galling to a political boss-his hand-picked Waterbury comptroller, Daniel J. Leary, lost an election to Republican Sherwood L. Rowland by 33 votes. Republican Comptroller Rowland took a good look at the accounts of the eight-year Hayes regime, called in State's Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn. Attorney Alcorn took another look, called in a grand jury...
...agreed, however, that this last week had hammered home to Adolf Hitler two things: 1) President Benes' demonstration of force effectively reminded the Führer that Czechoslovakia was not impotent Austria; 2) British activity in Berlin and the grave view His Majesty's Government at home took of the situation -in striking contrast to what was done when Austria was being occupied-indi-cated that the British were determined to prevent Herr Hitler's use of armed force to settle the Czechoslovakian Question...
From the word Allez, 51-year-old Bourdet was fighting mad, lunged wildly at 61-year-old Bernstein's chest and abdomen. At first Bernstein took it easy, then gradually matched his opponent's aggressiveness, finally gave Bourdet a poke in the arm. This ended the fight. But not for Bourdet. Snapped he: "This is only a theatre duel." Begging in vain for another go, he finally strode fuming off the field, without shaking Bernstein's hand...