Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the President of the U. S. told White House correspondents that he could think of only three ways to get rid of the nation's cotton mountain. He could burn it in a huge bonfire. He could float it into the Gulf of Mexico and sink it-no fantastic dream, for Brazil, weighted down by a similar mountain of coffee, tried both...
...hear Dr. Conant is trying to get rid of the "C" men," he said in conclusion. "I would have been one of the first...
...Americans boycott German goods only because she tries to get rid of the Jews? Even if a few were killed or got put in a concentration camp last November, it is like one to a thousand compared to the killing of nuns and priests in Soviet Spain, like one to a million compared to Russia...
Meanwhile the French Government tried to get rid of some of the refugees elsewhere, but with little success. The U. S. offered to take just 352, the unfilled portion of the 1939 quota for Spanish immigrants. South American countries wanted only Basque farmers. Soviet Russia invited only a few big Loyalist leaders to make their homes there. Mexico was willing to receive some, provided they promised to keep out of politics...
...Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, combined the staffs of morning and evening papers in Milwaukee, folded Universal Service into International News, tabbed the Boston American. This plugged a drainage of nearly $5,000,000 a year. Executives White and Hearst Jr. began liquidating the Hearst art treasures. Executive Connolly got rid of seven radio stations for $1,215,000. Executive Huberth told Hearst real-estate bondholders they could reduce interest charges or take the buildings. The bondholders took the Ritz Tower, where Mr. Hearst lives when he is in Manhattan...