Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another early problem was the fact that some residents with automobiles drove to neighboring towns to go shopping, and a few residents even moved out. But this has stopped. Says Dr. Paul B. Lonergan, now president of the Association: "It rid the town of its God-given deadbeats." He is a strong booster of the plan because after two years of practice in Bloomfield he had lost $2,200 through bad debts...
...witnesses, Harry Reutlinger of the American, testified that to get rid of Brundidge, who "had made a pest of himself," he had filled him with fanciful tales of newspaper-racketeering, even told him that he, Reutlinger, was a racketeer...
...shall vote to accept the conference report . . . because I believe the long-drawn-out duration of this tariff revision has contributed to business and industrial uncertainty and the quickest and surest way to end that uncertainty is to get rid of this measure...
Gramophone-Graphophone. Gramophone Co., Ltd., is the British affiliate of Radio Corp. Columbia Graphophone Co., Ltd., is an English graphophone company with a U. S. subsidiary, Columbia Phonograph Co., Inc. Last week it was reported that Columbia Graphophone, Ltd. would rid itself of Columbia Phonograph Co., probably by sale to some cinema company, to be able to merge with Gramophone. Negotiations for a Gramophone-Graphophone merger were begun in 1929, reputedly under the direction of Morgan Partner Thomas Cochran, but Radio Corp.'s ownership of Victor Talking Ma-chine make it desirable for the English Columbia Graphophone...
...telephones in the north wing of the Capitol and the Senate office building over to the dial system. Senators fussed and jiggled with the new instruments, lost patience. Particularly annoyed with these "abominable nuisances" was Virginia's peppery little Senator Carter Glass. He offered a resolution to rid Senators of dial telephones. Said he: "I object to being made an employe of the telephone company without compensation...