Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waters of the Pacific rolled blue and calm one day last week as a gunner aboard the U. S. S. Wyoming, engaged in war games off San Clemente Island, took his ramrod to seat a shell in the breech of a 5-in. gun which was participating in a barrage to cover a landing party of Marines. The gunner's thrust was his last. As he shoved home the shell, up with a roar went the breech in a great red flare of flame and blood against the blue. "I saw one boy sort of drift past me," recounted...
...made many a friend by his forceful, eloquent, ingratiating personality. He has also made many an enemy by his autocratic disposition, his use of militia in labor disputes. The troops, plus his use of the semi-dictatorial emergency powers he won from the Legislature few weeks after he took office, won him the title of "Hoosier Hitler." Citizens squirmed under his stiff taxes but otherwise it was generally admitted that he did a businesslike job of running his State. He worked hard to deliver it for Franklin Roosevelt last November...
Hugh S. Johnson wrote last week: "In logic and law there is no answer [to the President's proposal]. But Congress has been snowed under with objections mostly in error about what the proposal really means. Why? Because it took a crack at Mr. [Charles Evans] Hughes and because it was too damned slick...
...Senate had another great debate on the powers and functions of the Supreme Court, on the question of "property rights v. human rights." Occasion of that debate was the nomination of Charles Evans Hughes as Chief Justice. He was finally confirmed by vote of 52-to-26. Before that took place those who opposed him thoroughly aired their opinion that he was too closely connected with conservatism and entrenched wealth. Half the Senators who voted against him are now dead or retired, but of those who remain the great majority are today opposed to President Roosevelt's Court plan...
...hearing testimony. "I can hit a fourbit piece nine times out of ten," she remarked, where upon the unfortunate examiner adjourned the hearing, appealed to the court for protection. When the Sharon heirs brought suit in Federal circuit court to cancel Sarah Althea's claims, the Terrys took front-row seats. On the bench, doing the regular circuit duty then required of U. S. Supreme Court Justices, sat Terry's one-time colleague on the State Supreme Court bench and his longtime political foe, Justice Field. As he began to read a decision against Mrs. Terry, she clutched...