Word: rid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regards political stability, the Hellenic Republic was to be no better than the Monarchy. It was, perhaps, so far as it concerned foreign affairs, the price which Greece had to pay for getting rid of the royal house at the only time it was of any use to her; for one of King Georgos' sisters was the Crown Princess of Rumania, the King's wife was a daughter of the King and Queen of Rumania and one of the King's brothers-in-law was the King of Yugo-Slavia. Queen Marie of Rumania had cleverly set the stage...
Amundsen. Washed, shaven, rested, rid of his heavy Arctic furs, bareheaded. Explorer Roald Amundsen paced the bridge of the collier Albr. W. Selmer. At the ship's bows, a grinding noise. Up came the anchor, off went a thunderous salute from the Norwegian Government steamer Heimdal near by. Spectators ashore raised their voices in the Norwegian national anthem and the Albr. W. Selmer puffed laboriously out of Kings Bay, Spitsbergen (Norwegian possession), bound for Horten, Norway, about 1,500 miles northeast of there...
Entirely unofficial, the object of the Conference is to improve Pacific relations and get rid of problems by understanding and enlightenment of public opinion. If the 1925 conference is a success, another conference is planned...
This is step No. 2 in reorganizing the executive branch of the Government. Step No. 1 was the transfer of the Patent Office from the Interior to the Commerce Department. For many moons, there has been general agreement that there ought to be a reorganization to get rid of duplication, overlapping functions and a thousand and cue causes of inefficiency for which poor organization is responsible. A special commission drew up a law for reorganization, but Congress has not enacted...
...Sewell* (Cleveland shortstop) Gaston B. Means, famed supersleuth of the Daugherty Department of Justice, star witness of the all-star oil investigations last year, many times tried, surrendered at Washington and was sent to Atlanta Penitentiary (his first time in jail) to serve two years, following failure to rid himself of a conviction for conspiracy to violate the Volstead Act. Charles G. Dawes, Vice President, Senate reformer, announced that he would make one speech a month in the interest of a rule which would permit a majority of the Senate to close debate at any time. Some Senators would like...