Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Glass-Steagall bill attempted other reforms. Reserve member banks were to get rid of their stock-selling affiliates within one year. A new requirement called upon private bankers within the same period to cease accepting deposits or get out of the investment business. The Senate bill permitted national banks to have branches in States which allowed State banks to have them. The House bill made no such concession to branch-banking...
...congratulating themselves on having swindled a foolish parvenu when the admirer whom Polly Cass really likes shows them a copy of TIME, containing a picture of Bugs Ahearn and a story of his background under Crime. This document, a travesty on TIME, convinces the Casses they had best be rid of Bugs Ahearn. Simultaneously Bugs Ahearn learns that his new brokerage business is dishonestlv bankrupt, that his fiancee is unfaithful. He imports his entire Chicago staff, sells back the brokerage business with the aid of machine guns, gets engaged to his secretary, turns his private polo field into a playground...
...been publicly recognized and accepted as Erlanger's wife. One witness described an Atlantic City boardwalk scene in which Erlanger declared he was "doubly married" to Charlotte Fixel. About 75 other witnesses appeared to tell how Erlanger considered himself single, how he expressed a desire to be rid of "this woman." Surrogate O'Brien decided for Charlotte Fixel. His ruling entitled her to sue for a widow's share in the Erlanger estate. Said he in a 500-page decision: "The real picture [of the evidence] presents a union of two sympathetic persons, for a time illicit...
...sovereignty. Such was the British flag which no longer flaps over Dublin's Government buildings. Such was the resounding oath of "allegiance" to His Majesty George V, his heirs and successors by law, required of all Irish Free State members of Parliament. Last week Eamon de Valera got rid of that too, despite a stone around his neck and a yapping pack at his heels. The stone is the Irish Seanad (Senate). Its 60 members are elected for nine-year terms by the Dail and Seanad conjointly, in batches of 20 every three years. Once an honorable company, they...
...column of figures. He calculates that 98 people out of 100 are superstitious; women more than men; country folk more than city; actors, sailors, prize fighters and petty politicians more than other groups. Dr. Caldwell urges that women's clubs throughout the land join in to help rid children of superstition. Anti-superstition courses have already been tried in 29 high schools in 15 States, and as much as 494% improvement has been found after explosion of such unfounded beliefs as that the groundhog foretells weather, that winters are growing warmer, that lightning never strikes twice in the same...