Word: rid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cycle of reform that turned out most of the Long gang, rolled "Sweet-Smellin' " Sam Houston Jones into the Governorship in 1940, did not touch Bob Maestri. Instead, it got rid of his rivals for Huey's power. Most of the disgruntled Longsters who teamed with Sam Jones to lick Huey's brother Earl are now in Maestri's camp. It looks as if Reform has about run its brief cycle in Louisiana...
Nazi Party extremists were reportedly urging the liquidation of all the "possessing" classes to get rid of the privileged people-industrialists. Junkers, et al.-who might turn against the regime if they thought it on its last legs...
...Moscow front, there to take personal command and starch the spines of his very weary warriors with an inspiring personal appearance. The obvious question-what can Germany do now?-had its usual gossip-born answers: a German turn to the south in an all-out effort to rid the Mediterranean of British power and avenge the Libyan defeats ; a German move against Turkey; German occupation of Spain, Portugal, an attack against Gibraltar; German assumption of the French Fleet, occupation of Dakar...
...over the U.S. The employes can perhaps get new jobs. But the hapless dealers must stick to their posts, get rid of the 400,000-plus new cars they hold, pay off bank loans, try to sublet their showrooms to butchers and grocers. In this they will need help. As part of the rationing plan now in the Washington works, dealers will get easy-payment Federal or private loans to carry their new cars until bought by some lucky holder of a ration card...
...when Miss Temple breezed through a more modern version five years ago, for 20th Century-Fox. Now it's Kathleen, unhappy daughter of a widower (Herbert Marshall) who neglects her, the rebellious charge of a governess who maltreats her. Of course, Miss Temple rights all wrongs by getting rid of the governess, of her father's butterfly fiancee (Gail Patrick), and by marrying daddy off to her nice new governess (Laraine...