Word: rid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...identified with the defense program. Last week, as his electrical workers convened in Camden, N.J., Carey's mind was made up to two resolves. He would put his workers, three-fourths of whom were engaged in defense work, squarely behind the President's defense program. He would rid his union of isms - Fascism, Naziism, Communism. He was confident he could...
...bland faces gave no hint of the tension existing within the Vargas Government - a tension which only recently caused a grave but laughable Cabinet crisis. According to the story that leaked out, Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha and other pro-U.S. ministers had planned an elaborate coup to get rid of Axis-sympathizing General Dutra...
Some of these manufacturers have got rid of their button-sewing machines, would have to retool if slide fasteners were cut off. Some of them make products (like trick keycases, children's snowsuits, etc.) to which slide fasteners were a sine qua non. To replace all fasteners would, Talon estimates, take 1,300,000,000 buttons a year-and on Arthur's desk were orders from companies he had never heard of before, which wanted fasteners because they were already having trouble getting enough buttons...
...consent decree, being a court order, gives Sterling's officers a Government-underwritten legal out. Meanwhile, to rid the company of any pro-Nazi stigma, the directors last fortnight got Sterling a new president and chairman. (Messrs. Weiss and Diebold moved upstairs to head newly created Board committees.) The new chairman: Edward Sidney Rogers, international patent lawyer and adviser to the State Department. The new president: ex-Sterling treasurer, ex-U.S. Internal Revenue Bureau official, James Hill Jr. Mr. Rogers' knowledge of international law will be especially useful. For although Sterling is relatively safe...
Probably the Vichy Government would hesitate to jail or purge 100 elected representatives of the French people from many different parts of France. Although Vichy has abolished Parliament in fact, it has always been skittish about getting rid of the appearance. Parliament's pay was stopped by Vichy's order on Sept. 1, but Marshal Pétain's own acts provide that Parliament shall remain "in existence" until a new Constitution provides for new assemblies. Moreover, the present French Constitution states that the French Parliament shall meet in the capital, and last week this pretense...