Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ambassador Jones, having rid himself of amateur restrictions (TIME, Nov. 24), last week announced he will broadcast weekly golf lessons for 26 weeks (NBC) for Lambert Pharmacal Co. (''Listerine...
...mergers pending an investigation of holding companies has never left committee, its influence has helped retard all consolidation moves. Last week the I.C.C took a step forward toward its own consolidation plan (TIME, Dec. 30). It ordered Pennsylvania R. R. to get rid of its 48% stock ownership in Wabash R. R. and 30% stock ownership in Lehigh Valley within six months. These holdings were valued at $106,592,757. The I.C.C. declared that the Perm's interest in these other roads was a violation of the Clayton act. Pennsylvania R. R. claimed it bought into these roads...
...editor of the Dry Christian Herald, had a long "background chat" with President Hoover at the White House. Last week Editor High wrote in his Christian Herald: "The major obstacle in the path of the repealists is Herbert Hoover. The success of their program requires that he be got rid of . . . the Drys need, we believe, to see to it, first of all, that Herbert Hoover, the Dry, is renominated...
...Three football. He was All-American quarterback himself in 1907. He was a hard-working but colorless coach; he originated few plays though he had the reputation of having invented some which he borrowed from his smart brother Howard J., who coaches University of Southern California. "Get rid of Jones- he's a boy scout leader," said Yale's Old Guard when the team was losing, annoyed because Jones regarded as unethical the deceptions practiced in other colleges to produce winning teams. With William Roper, equally idealistic Princeton coach, he agreed that neither would scout the other...
...Chairman Raskob and Executive Chairman Shouse?signed a manifesto on the party's future course. They said they regarded their "remark- able victory" as an "opportunity for constructive service." The Republican tariff they flayed as the "apotheosis of bad economy" but added: "Whatever changes may be considered necessary to rid the present act of its outstanding enormities, nothing is further from [our] minds than a general revision of the tariff." Other excerpts...