Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press in its dissection of the Communists all but ignored the plight of Fritz Kuhn's German-American Bundsters, who have long been nourished on Red bait. Fritz Kuhn took the line that Earl Browder used: what happened in Europe made no difference to Nazis...
...still his admiring friend. Last July his company was building Green Mountain Dam and power plant in Colorado for the U. S. Reclamation Bureau when five A. F. of L. unions struck for a closed shop. Deputized vigilantes from nearby towns and farms shot down five pickets, took over the dam site, behaved so raucously that Colorado's Governor Ralph L. Carr dispatched National Guardsmen to suppress "a state of insurrection." Distressed by the bloodshed, put out by delay, Roy Warner remembered his wise, calm friend in Chicago...
...Then he got into his car and let Stranger No. 2 take the wheel. At 10:15 Stranger No. 2 pulled up at Madison Square and got out. "Just wait here," he said. Winchell waited. A moment later a third stranger arrived, opened the door and got in. He took off his dark glasses and threw them into the street. Winchell stepped on the gas. He slowed his car up to the curb at Fifth Avenue, got out, escorted Stranger No. 3 to a black limousine, inside which, also in dark glasses, sat G-Man J. Edgar Hoover. "Mr. Hoover...
...Associate Justice Owen Josephus Roberts of the U. S. Supreme Court took note of Presidential chitchat in his behalf, announced at Scranton, Pa.: "I am wholly unavailable. I am perfectly satisfied where...
...week wore on it looked as if intangibles delayed him. Why had he stopped? He would have had the advantage of war if he had plunged to seize Danzig, the Polish Corridor, Upper Silesia and the other sections that he said were his, the moment the shock took effect. But he would also have had the guilt of launching...