Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cowards exist even in the best and bravest masses. . . . We will get rid of them...
...brought out that holding companies and New York bankers are not the proper people to run the railroads. ..." Last week he added: "Holding companies are as great an evil in the railroad field as they are in the field of public utilities and eventually Congress will have to get rid of them." With this refrain well-understood by all, last week the following choice testimony went into the Van Sweringen record...
...only natural that Commissioner Moss should concentrate his reform zeal on Broadway. He requisitioned dress rehearsal seats to all productions so that if a show was dirty it could be cleaned up without the furor of revision after the opening. He made all casting offices take out licenses, rid the city of unscrupulous booking agents. In 1934 he requested that burlesque houses tear out their stage-to-audience runways, gave them six months to restore decency to their performances. The burlesque producers tore out the runways but that was all. Last week, after three patient years, Commissioner Moss made theatrical...
...public assumes the New Deal has made U. S. banking and finance safe for the small investor, nothing of the sort has yet taken place. After long, sorry rehearsals of fiscal crimes committed "rider the Old Deal, he delivers this warning cry: "It is imperative that the investor rid himself once and for all of the illusion that the Securities Act is the weapon he so desperately needed, and look to other means of self-protection. . . . The average investor assumes that registration signifies that the Commission has passed on the merits and given approval to such security. . . . Under...
Next Wednesday, the Guardian will present J. Raymond Walsh, instructor in Economics, who will talk at the same time over the same station on "Labor's Rid for Power...