Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazi Frick blurted out to a mass meeting at Kempten, Bavaria, the flat declaration that Bruning must quit, that the Nazis would take no part in the movement to re-elect Old Paul by popular vote. The meaning was clear: If Old Paul wanted Nazi support he must get rid of Bruning, a thing Old Paul would hardly do. Handsome Adolf's mustache wiggled convulsively. Here was possible rebellion in his own party...
...electro-magnetic 'hummer' which, at small expense of energy, can spread over a large space the peculiar hum, and attract the males; perhaps also repelling the females. Various ways of trapping the males may be suggested, as they need not be desiccated or cooked to get rid of them...
...Almanac was established by the late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the World in 1886 because current almanacs, all of which were political, were strongly Republican. Pulitzer wanted something that told Democratic history and news. Gradually it got rid of its political flavor, lived to be the foremost U. S. general almanac...
...jailbreak fails, but since Sylvia Sidney is unjustly imprisoned she gets out before the picture ends. The plot framework which surrounds the prison scenes is diverting and well constructed, but basically improbable. It has to do with a gangster who pays attention to Miss Sidney, gets rid of his old girl by sending her to jail, vengefully shoots a detective because Miss Sidney marries someone else. She and her husband (Gene Raymond) are convicted of the shooting on circumstantial evidence. The gangster's old girl meets Miss Sidney in jail and tries to help her save her husband from...
...still pushing its own consolidation plan, ordered Pennsylvania to get rid of its Wabash stock. I. C. C.'s plan was to consolidate Wabash and Seaboard Air Line (put in receivership December 1930) into a fifth eastern trunk line to be known as System No. 7. This scheme has pretty well collapsed but the I. C. C. order has not been withdrawn...