Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nevertheless, the Agriculture Department did not intend to "renege" on its promise to keep supports just where they are, although it now has nearly 100 million lbs. of Government-bought butter in storage. To get rid of part of the surplus, the Department announced that 15 million lbs. would be given away to any welfare agencies that wanted it. It looked as if the Department might have to buy another 150 million lbs. by year's end, making its stockpile large enough to supply every man, woman & child in the U.S. with more than 1½ lbs. apiece...
...refuses to be party to political suppression, he gives no answer; off to jail he goes. This procedure has been swung into action now against an inconvenient labor union in Hawaii. There is hardly any pretense that the Committee is gathering information. It's trying to get rid of Hawaiians whose union activities it doesn't like...
...running out of names, so I called Jim Carr, president of the Riley Memorial Association. He told me that Judge Will Hough at Greenfield, where Riley was born, might be able to help. The judge asked me why I didn't get hold of one of Rid-path's two daughters. I said that I had been told there were no living Ridpath descendants. He said that was peculiar because he had seen one of them, Mrs. Myrtle Cook, in Greenfield a few days before. The other, a Mrs. Thayer, lived in Indianapolis...
Some Republicans wanted no part of McCarthy. Former Secretary of State Henry Stimson urged the Congress not to encourage "the noisy antics" of "these little men." McCarthy, said Stimson, "is not trying to get rid of known Communists in the State Department; he is hoping against hope that he will find some...
After the airline crash in Quebec last autumn which took the lives of three Kennecott Copper Corp. executives and 20 others (TIME, Sept. 19), investigators turned up shocking evidence. The crash was no accident; it was planned murder. To get rid of his wife, who was aboard the plane, a jeweler named Albert Guay had planted a dynamite bomb in the freight compartment. Last week a trial jury took just 14 minutes to find Guay guilty. The sentence: death by hanging...