Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...memories take me back to a big basement kitchen in a New Jersey farm house where the preliminaries took place that preceded the next-day's stirrin'. Down in one corner of the orchard was a group of apple trees known as "Yellow-Sweets." These were par-excellent for making sweet-cider and indispensable for making apple butter. The day before, a big load of cull apples went to the cider press and a dozen bags of the finest, to the basement for the grand apple peelin...
...deny the effusive speech attributed to him at a Klan klorero after the unsolicited card had reached him. Most of all it did not tell whether he joined the Klan out of hatred for non-Aryans, and later dropped it in a new spirit of tolerance, or whether he took one or both actions for political expediency...
...when his Independent Republican Party, with a Prohibition platform, drew enough votes from Boss J. Henry Roraback's candidates to insure some New Deal successes, although Gubernatorial Candidate L&233;vitt himself got only about 10,000 votes. For his services the New Deal, in a hasty move, took Mr. L&233;vitt to Washington as a special assistant to Attorney General Homer Cummings, himself a onetime Connecticut politician. Before long, zealous Dr. L&233;vitt was circularizing Connecticut voters with an appeal to form a new party, inviting replies to be addressed to him at the Department...
Albert L&233;vitt resigned from the Department of Justice in August, perhaps for the last time. But he had yet another sting for Homer Cummings and the New Deal. Eight days after his resignation took effect, Lawyer L&233;vitt had popped up with a petition demanding that Nominee Hugo Black prove his eligibility to sit on the Supreme Court. Mr. L&233;vitt contended that Senator Black, by voting for the Supreme Court Retirement Act, had helped increase the emoluments of that office contrary to Article I, Section 6 of the Constitution...
Outraged delegations speedily called on President Martin to explain the dismissal of the men largely responsible for the union's triumph over General Motors. Mr. Martin took refuge in the Eddystone Hotel. The delegations swarmed through the lobby, picketed the entrances. Telephone appeals for an audience were rebuffed with reports that Mr. Martin was out. Finally a group commanded by a unionist named Robert Gallagher penetrated to the fourth floor, started to pound and kick at Room...