Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Mr. Padway enjoyed an excellent chance to butter up the doubters, sell himself to the executive council as a whole. While he tried to do so the council concluded a busy spring session in Washington, took the following actions...
Honest, orthodox M. Daladier last week, took a handsome "profit" for the French Treasury at once. This profit, obtained by "revaluing" the gold stocks of the Bank of France and the exchange fund of the State, totaled 47 billion francs...
...William W. Voisine and WT. Newton Hawkins. William Voisine was President of the Village from 1933 to 1936. In the 1936 election he was re-elected by one vote. Newton Hawkins asked for a recount, in which William Voisine's margin was increased to ten. Newton Hawkins took it to the Michigan Supreme Court. Last month the Supreme Court Justices found the election a draw, ordered the two politicians to decide the issue by lot. Last week they pulled slips out of a hat. Newton Hawkins got the slip lettered ELECTED. Promptly he promised to start suit...
Meanwhile, in Barcelona, Author-Correspondent Vincent Sheean took advantage of the lull to get off a few fresh observations on the 22-month-old war. Most striking thing about the war to Sheean, who reached Spain only two months ago, is its incongruous combination of ultra-modern and primitive methods. The ultramodern: "Newfangled bombs, thermite, delayed-action fuses and the like, which are capable of greater destruction than any bombs hitherto used in war." The primitive: "There are no proper trenches anywhere [with the exception of those outside Madrid]. The ditches and ravines in these dusty clay hills take...
...exhibition's managers have been beset with protests since the fair was planned. Built in the midst of a Glasgow local option "dry" area, it took a special act of Parliament to insure thirsty Scots of a "wee deoch an' doris" on the grounds. Strait-laced Scots, who are now righteously demanding that the grounds be closed on Sundays, last week objected to three classic statues of nude women. The canny Scottish exhibitors, not wishing to spoil the commercial attraction of the statues, temporarily solved the problem- they "clothed" the nudes by pasting pieces of paper...