Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Witness Bridges demonstrated that whether he is a Communist or not is important primarily because it will determine whether U. S. citizens who own property and hire labor can be rid of Harry Bridges, trade unionist. The quality which made him tick as precisely and dangerously as a bomb-clock did not come from Marx. It was simple, deep and active discontent-with things as he found them during his boyhood Down Under in Australia, with the U. S. as he found it when he sailed through the Golden Gate on a freighter...
...baggy breeches, drinks "sulfur water" out of a whiskey bottle he carries in his apron pocket. Newsboy Heckman makes his appearance running down the street yelling: "Light's out! Light's out!" He interprets the headlines to suit himself. Last week, by force of invective, he got rid of a Mexican competitor who could read no English and shouted nothing but "Beeg Wreck...
...Cordell Hull was worn and downcast, his chief was furious. Walter George was one of the Senators whom Mr. Roosevelt tried to "purge" last year. To his mind this just showed how right he was in seeking to rid his party of such obstructionists. And a Senator who voted with George was Iowa's Guy Gillette, another purge-marked man. Mr. Gillette denied that his motive now was revenge for 1938, but that made Franklin Roosevelt feel no better about his worst defeat of all this session. He conferred with Cordell Hull about what they should do next...
...putting half a halter on the President, obliging him to embargo U. S. "arms & ammunition" (but not other material such as planes, motors, trucks, oil, cotton) to belligerents (TIME, July 10). Reason Senator Pittman delayed seemed to be that he was not at all sure of being able to rid the President of that half-halter. And the reason he was not sure stemmed straight back to the spirit of resurgence in Congress, the determination of many a Senator to show the President that Congress, not he, is boss. Among the older Senators it stemmed back also to the great...
...Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena, continued to publish a Monarchist A. B. C. in Seville. When Franco took Madrid, Don Juan Ignacio got his paper back and immediately began publishing it in the old way: calling for the restoration of Alfonso. Franco tried to get rid of Luca de Tena by offering him an embassy, but Don Juan Ignacio refused. Last month A. B. C. published a defiant pro-Monarchist editorial. Next thing its readers knew, it had encountered a "shortage of paper" and folded...