Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hupp has this month rid itself of Promoter Archie Moulton Andrews, director and holder of various stock options and commissions dependent upon sales increases (TIME, April 15). Said Federal Judge Arthur J. Tuttle of Detroit in voiding these contracts: "Andrews' conduct was so bad that it seriously seems necessary to attribute all his conduct to an unbalanced mind and a dishonest mind. I cannot account for his conduct on the basis of one of those attributes alone. Acts of Andrews . . . had to do almost entirely with getting money out of the corporation...
...France is unwilling to lift even one tapering Parisian finger to raise it out of a chaos in which slie has no interest. Now that the League has done its dirty work, France finds herself in the embarrassing position of the housewife who must once and for all get rid of an old servant without having the neighbors accuse her too loudly of cruelty and ingratitude...
Paved walks have been common elsewhere for several decades. At least by the time of its three-hundredth anniversary Harvard should make use of this modern convenience and rid itself of all the remaining seventeenth century mud-puddles...
...snow." The Hearst newspapers were flayed for deliberate "lies,'' for "the gravest abuse of the power of the Press in the history of this country." After 30 angry minutes of denunciation, Governor Smith wound up by urging the people of "this city, this State and this country ... to get rid of this pestilence that walks in the darkness...
...editor, using "diplomatic and gratifying" communications, persuaded him at least to take his charming fictional college boys along. Wearily Author Flandrau capitulated, found the young Harvard men accompanying him to England and France, thought of them as traveling in his heart, his head and his steamer trunk, got rid of them at last with such relief that he did not reread his own account of their adventures until 34 years later...