Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conference, even veterans chuckled at the "truth party" the President had prepared. No sooner had the doors closed on the conference room where the three directors were seated in a semicircle in front of the President's desk, with Secretary Steve Early directing a battery of stenographers who took complete notes of the proceedings in relays, than a serious hitch developed in Showman Roosevelt's plans. Like a stern county magistrate, the President announced that he would take up Chairman Morgan's charges first, the majority directors' counter-charges second, demand all supporting "facts...
...affect labor's political power? Prime example of its adverse effect was the defeat of the C. I. O. slate in Detroit's municipal elections last year. The most revealing answer will come from the May primary election in Pennsylvania where, last fortnight, John L. Lewis took his political life in his hands by entering Lieut.-Governor Thomas Kennedy, Secretary-Treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America, in the Democratic primary race...
...three-story building in one flat of which he was born at Braunau on the River Inn. A janitor of a school once attended by Hitler as a boy fired one shot, not at Hitler who was nowhere near, but over the heads of some Storm Troops. They took his gun, and flogged him. The mothers of three babies just born at Vienna were announced to have named each "Adolf." As Adolf approached the provincial capital at Linz, Austrian crowds were cheering everyone they could think of, even bellowing "Hell Ward Price!" since this British journalist is pro-Nazi...
Charlie Hutter took the finals in the 50 free-style in 23.3, failing to break his Harvard record of 23 flat. Although he started well, made a fast turn, and stroked along beautifully, the fact that all six lanes were occupied by splashing mermen probably cut his time down somewhat. Tonight Hutter will have his last Harvard pool chance at his 100 record of 52 flat. Reilly of Rutgers, and White of Bowdoin tied for second behind the Crimson captain, and Rose of Rutgers was fourth...
Graham Cummin bowed to Al Van de Weghe in the 150 backstroke, but took second place over Yale's Joe Burns, as the Tiger ace muscled his way to a great 1:34.5, equalling his own intercollegiate record. Cummin was clocked in 1:37.8, only five-tenths of a second slower than his best...