Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action. That afternoon he was closeted with Vice President Garner, Speaker Bankhead and Leader Rayburn of the House, Leader Robinson of the Senate. When they emerged Senator Robinson declared that the Sit-Down situation had passed its crisis. Mr. Garner said: "I am deaf, dumb and blind." Paterfamilias Roosevelt took his family to church on Easter, cast a beneficent smile on the Easter Monday egg-rolling for 53,000 children on the White House lawn. Unless a real strike crisis forced him to it or until he was ready to use it as an argument for his Supreme Court plan...
...chief Detroit organizer, started from Lansing over icy midnight roads with an escort of State troopers to call the men out. And that was no easy task. John Lewis' word was by no means law to these thousands of raw recruits in his labor movement. It took Martin & Frankensteen twelve hours of driving, explaining, arguing, but finally, with bands playing and flags flying, out they all marched from the Dodge, De Soto and seven other Chrysler plants. And in marched State troopers to guard Chrysler Corp.'s property until the truce should produce a treaty...
...their "association," pay tribute of some $2,000,000 per year. Not seriously disputing the picture drawn by Prosecutor Herlands and his witnesses, the seven defendants mostly whined that they had been the innocent or terrorized dupes of the real racketeers-the late Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer & henchmen. It took the jury less than five hours last week to decide that these excuses were nonsense. It found every defendant guilty on every count, enabling Justice Philip J. McCook to sentence each one, if he so chooses next week, to 200-to-300 years in prison. As the jury foreman called...
Huey Long did not increase the size of Louisiana's Supreme Court in order to get himself a majority. He did not need to. He, and his machine, had the opportunity to get four friendly justices out of seven on the bench. It took a little more finagling, however, to make Louisiana elections safe for Long. As elsewhere in the South the important part of Louisiana elections is the primary. Louisiana's primary law provided that every candidate could hand in the names of his choices for election clerks and commissioners. All the names were written on slips...
That the French Cabinet of Premier Blum took most seriously last week a warning by its Secret Service that the Italians may simply seize the railway if they cannot get stock control, was said in Paris to be shown by. the fact that experienced French General Victor Denain was sent rushing to Djibouti...