Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back from the Paris Inter-parliamentary Union conference, the State's Senior Senator, square-headed Kenneth D. McKellar, strong Shelby County Democrat, heard about the plan by radio. Arrived in the U. S., he took the first train to Nashville, and in the smoky old Capitol addressed the Legislature with a stirring denunciation of the plan-which incidentally may enable Governor Browning to replace him in the U. S. Senate in 1940. Said he: "I've made mistakes but I do not think I deserve this stab in the back...
...Duchess have now completed," remarked one of the Dictator's aides, "has shown how right Der Führer was in judging that King Edward's abdication would be a serious blow to German interests." With ladies Herr Hitler is always the pink of effusive German politeness, took both the Duchess of Windsor's hands in his own as he warmly said good-by to her, snapped a good-by Nazi salute at the Duke of Windsor who snapped one back...
Musicraft. Last February Musicraft Records, Inc. was the first of the three new little firms on the market with such discs. A youngish Manhattan lawyer named Milton L. Rein and a music teacher named Henry Cohen formed the firm, took in Herman Adler, a musical researcher from Germany, as digger-in-chief for recordable works...
Died. Archbishop Simeon, 98, Orthodox Archbishop of Varna and Preslav, Bulgaria ; of pneumonia; in Sofia. He took part in Bulgaria's struggle for freedom from Turkey, in the fight for an independent Bulgarian church, was one of the drafters of the Bulgarian constitution...
...where he is still referred to as "Pope Ratti," "Cardinal Ratti" or even plain "Achille Ratti." Said a contemporary of Pius XI: "He was in every boyish prank. ... He always liked to jump. ... In a fight with my cousin, he got a bloody nose. He never forgot that. It took him a year but he gave his milk brother [son of Achille Ratti's wet-nurse] something to remember in a black...