Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Loesch grinned slightly when he recalled his first attempts to clean up Chicago under the Thompson regime. "It took us two months to get rid of Big Bill's police chief, Hughes. Once we got him before the grand jury, the Thompson machine itself forced him to resign. The work we then started back in 1928 has not stopped; today men such as Police Chief Allman are valiantly fighting crime in Chicago. Definitely less corruption exists there than in New York...
...discord between Hitler and Göring is club-footed little Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, increasingly mighty as his Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment rivets its control ever tighter on Germany's press, radio, drama and cinema. Dr. Goebbels' scheme for getting rid of the Premier of Prussia is simply to abolish Prussia as a State. Last week General Göring, fighting for his Premier-hood, was able to force into one and only one Berlin newspaper a short account of a call he had just made on President von Hindenburg...
...America (84 boards), which sent him and others touring the U. S. last autumn (TIME, Dec. 11). Said Dr. Jones: "I will go back to India heartened and convinced that the soul of the church is sound. . . . There is an undertone of craving for Christian unity. . . . We must get rid of the cleavage between denominations. No Christianity can compete with Marxian Communism and Islam that has race exclusiveness at heart...
...yard. The result is the present interminable struggle, in which Paraguay has so far been victorious, having almost completely demolished the southern army of Bolivia just prior to the signing of the truce. Bolivia, however, has taken advantage of the truce to recuperate, banish the peace party, and get rid of the German general, Kundt. Apparently, she is now ready to enter the struggle with renewed energy...
...eccentricity, pardonable but peculiar. Europe will fall back on her pristine direct negotiations, and the major nations will be disembarrassed of the nagging idealism of the smaller club members, free once more to pursue their devious ways without fear of interruption or inconvenient cross-examination. Il Duce will be rid of a contradiction which has weighed sorely upon him from the first: the contrast of his abhorrence of parliamentarism at home, and his acceptance abroad of the super-parliament of the League. France will be shorn, it appears, of the universal sanction of the Versailles Treaty which the League...