Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just before I was going to Paris to work on the treaties [for the German puppet enemy states]," he recalled, "Mrs. Byrnes insisted that I have a checkup-so I went to the Naval Hospital and they took a cardiogram of me. I'd not been sick in 40 years, but they scared the life out of me. They said the 'V which should have been horizontal was inverted," and told Byrnes he would have to slow up. "The next day," said Byrnes, "I sent in my resignation to become effective when I finished the Paris treaties...
Convicting ex-Congressman Andrew Jackson May of Kentucky was a speedy matter-it took a federal jury less than two hours to find him guilty of taking bribes from wartime Munitions Makers Henry & Murray Garsson and conspiring to defraud the U.S. (TIME, Feb. 3, 1947 et seq.). But getting Handy Andy to serve his prison sentence of eight months to two years was not so easy...
Overwhelmed by these workings of the law, unable to touch her capital, Mrs. McCullough wondered how she was going to defend herself. Columnist Igor Cassini rallied to her aid. He appealed to his readers for contributions to the Mrs. John T. McCullough Defense Fund. Westbrook Pegler took up the crusade. So did George Sokolsky, columnist in the New York Sun, Bill Cunningham of the Boston Herald, and Radio Commentator Fulton Lewis Jr. Money came in, mostly in small denominations, from militant sympathizers; $18,000 was collected to help Mrs. McCullough fight her libel case through the federal courts...
Scott journeyed to native encampments on the wild thornbush plains. He bumped over rough motor tracks, got lost in deserts, sat with chiefs and councillors and took down their words. The tribesmen deputized him to speak for them to the outside world, sold some of their cattle to pay for his trips to sessions...
...country, but without the debilitating humidity of Rio. The rolling hills were forested, and the promise of water was everywhere. The Norrises sent for their family. In the next six months, some 80 other American families joined them, and by 1894, the area was so thoroughly American that paulistas took to calling it Villa Americana, a name which the state of Sao Paulo later made official...