Word: undertook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Asked, at his country home, by a telephone operator, Roy Barton White, president of Western Union Telegraph Co., personally undertook to deliver a Mother's Day telegram at a farm near Annandale, N. J. The farmer handed Mr. White...
...Since he undertook to lead a Congress which Franklin Roosevelt left to stew in its own juice, John Garner has taken to rambling out of his room in the Senate office building to call on Senators young & old, to having likely new House men brought in to his "school of education" by mutual friends. He does not dazzle them with brilliance. He is more apt to invite them to join him in "striking a blow for liberty" (taking a snort of Mount Vernon rye). He has no whip to crack. He does not drive. He hardly leads. But the Garner...
...Puzzled by the nervousness with which famed Artist John Singer Sargent undertook a portrait of her husband, Mrs. Wilson found that Sargent had been talking to Henry Cabot Lodge, who had told him that the portrait "presented a great opportunity for the artist to serve his Party." Reason: Sargent's skill in finding the animal counterparts of human beings, "thus reveal some hidden beastly trait...
Under the 1912 agreement, retroactive to 1908, the University undertook to pay to the city as "rent" on land along the Charles now occupied by some of the Houses, an annual sum of $2,400 in perpetuity...
...also a Fascist victory. Even as Roman Catholic editors wrote of it, General Franco, to them a "Christian Gentleman," set in motion a device which might well seriously embarrass his Christian followers. He signed a "cultural treaty" with Adolf Hitler, by which Spain and the Third Reich undertook to give "fiscal preference" to one another's cultural works. Banned in each state were to be all publications unfavorable to either Government...