Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said he plainly: ". . . we offer you this choice: 1) You can have more SEC regulation of brokers' activities-regulation designed to insure customer safety, or 2) by the establishment of brokerage banks, you can, as far as this subject of customer protection is concerned, get rid of the SEC and of SEC regulations on that subject. We much prefer the latter: it is far simpler, less expensive, less irritating to you and less difficult for us." from an annual 160 to 220 per bird without increased feeding; annual milk output from...
...more than $1,000,000 from University of Wisconsin's budget, told University President Clarence A. Dykstra at a budget hearing: "Something is smoldering somewhere and I want to clean it up. I want to get rid of this cancerous growth or kill the patient...
...shallow stream of jazz. Then he plunged into the acid eddies of dissonance and atonality, emerged with the reputation of being one of the least understandable of U. S. musicians. Today, Copland has begun writing music for the people, for as large an audience as possible, "to get rid of the idea that American music is a weak sister...
...Biltmore Hotel three blocks away some 100 mine operators were facing their own situation; six-weeks of shut-down had helped them to get rid of half of their coal piles and any longer stoppage would only cost them money which they could ill afford to lose. But some operators still held out. Many a potent mine owner, ready to sign at union terms, accused the holdouts of stalling in hope of provoking an industrial war in which U. M. W. might be licked...
...Bilbo thus returned to a favorite theme and revived an idea older than the U. S. itself. By subsidizing a Negro exodus to Africa, he maintained, the U. S. would rid its whites of a depressed and depressing race, save itself from racial "amalgamation...