Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There are at least two ways of getting rid of judges. One is to take them out and shoot them, as they are reported to do in at least one other country. The other way is more genteel but no less effective. They are kept on the public pay roll, but their votes are canceled...
...mule, declared his mistress, "He's too lazy to work. We keep him here for luck. Wherever there's a mule there's luck. I love him, too. I am crazy about the rabbits. Of course when there are too many I have to get rid...
...months of evidence collecting, the restaurant case marked his first courtroom move against New York's industrial rackets, which were the big game Governor Lehman appointed him to track down. On last week's jury verdict hung the probable success or failure of his whole drive to rid the nation's largest city of criminal business parasites (TIME...
...There are a least two ways of getting rid of judges," he declared. "One is to take them out and shoot them, as they are reported to do in at least one other country. The other way is more genteel, but no less effective. They are kept on he public payroll but their votes are cancelled...
...situation. The Independence Act was supported in Congress by two groups, one inspired by international altruism, the other inspired by national selfishness. Those inspired by selfishness were Congressmen, mostly from sugar-producing States, who wanted to put the Philippines outside the U. S. tariff barrier so as to get rid of business competitors. Into the law they wrote provisions which would institute a series of export taxes on Philippine goods shipped to the U. S.-the equivalent of a U. S. tariff-beginning at 5% in 1940 and mounting 5% a year. Since the U. S. is the Philippines...