Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mild Mr. Woodring, the President chose for Assistant Secretary a go-getting West Virginia lawyer and Legionnaire, Louis Johnson. Reports that Mr. Johnson had been promised his boss's job soon reached the newspapers and the boss. Secretary Woodring thereupon set himself to keeping his job and getting rid of Mr. Johnson, bringing to that effort a hitherto unsuspected vigor. Assistant Secretary Johnson set himself to running the War Department, acting very much like a No. 2 man who had been made No. i in all but title...
...killed Anya Sosoyeva, struck down Delia Bogard, yielded to "an uncontrollable impulse" and raped Myrtle Wagner after he had looted her employer's home. On his way to the campus to show police and newsmen how he had worked, he was allowed to visit a barber, get rid of his beard. Publicity-wise, cinemad Los Angeles prosecutors and police then had Killer Cook put on an act as fantastic as it was morbid. For grinding sound cameras (ostensibly at hand to record evidence) a neighborhood blonde impersonated Anya Sosoyeva. Clinton Cook stalked the willing stand...
...last two years the Scripps brothers have got rid of two of their newspapers, cutting their chain down to eight. Weakest of these has been the Portland (Ore.) News-Telegram, chief loser in a circulation war between Portland's other two papers, the morning Oregonian and the evening Oregon Journal. To boost the Journal's falling circulation, its shrewd business manager, Simeon Reed Winch, last week did the smartest thing he could do: persuaded the Scripps boys to fold their News-Telegram and took over (for a reported $600,000) its features and circulation. After eliminating duplication...
...hustling, industrial Waterbury, Conn, (watches, chemicals, brass) thought it was rid at last of a corrupt Democratic regime which had ridden it since 1921. Into the mayor's office marched a silver-haired bigboy named Thomas Frank Hayes, a Democrat of good family and much property who had made a name for himself in the Legislature. With him marched his friends Daniel J. Leary as comptroller and Thomas P. Kelly as executive secretary. They got a new "strong mayor" charter for the city instead of a city-manager plan, which had nearly been adopted. Taxes went up, relief necessitated...
...Dutch Parliament is so split among minor parties that not one of them can command a sure majority. Last week Dr. D. J. de Geer, leader of the Christian Historical Party, smaller but a shade less conservative than the Anti-Revolutionaries, formed a new Cabinet. Now that they are rid of stiff-necked Dr. Colijn, the Socialists and Catholics may well be ready to support a compromise policy...