Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Martin's first callers was Col. Ferrer with the word that the officers would support no President who had not received U. S. recognition. Barricaded in the National Hotel the officers issued a statement: "The public al ready has forgotten the patriotic work we did in getting rid of the Dictator Machado when the enlisted personnel had not the nerve to do this alone. We are willing to return to our commands as soon as all the enlisted men announce their willingness to return to their ranks." Out in his Vedado suburban home which resembled an armed camp...
Second big effort of the Administration was to try to get the bankers to grin & bear the deposit guarantee feature of the new banking law. Flatly Mr. Jones told the bankers: "Those of you who think you are going to get rid of deposit insurance at the next session of Congress simply do not know your Congress...
...planning a divorce, Mary takes up with him again and soon is expecting a baby; then Mrs. Andrews decides against the divorce and Mary Stevens has to go abroad for her confinement. A year or so later, on her way back to marry Andrews who has finally rid himself of his spouse, Dr. Stevens helps the ship's doctor treat a case of infantile paralysis. Her own child contracts the disease and dies before serum can be brought by airplane. She is just about to throw herself out of a window in despair when the janitor scampers...
...contenders whom they could not beat at law. As their patents expired they fortified their monopoly by other means-acquired all the available bauxite deposits in the U. S. and South America, pre-empted cheap waterpower sites at Niagara, in the Carolinas, in Canada. The Aluminum company got rid of competition as effectively as Standard Oil before it, and as unscrupulously, said would-be rivals. Profits were plowed back into the business-$70,000,000 of them had gone back in by 1917. The market value of its stock, largely Mellon owned, was $150,000,000. Just at the beginning...
...must get rid of the idea of making money out of money. ... A million dollars in gold by itself will not produce one copper penny. Put a hen on it and it will not hatch. Water it and it will not grow...