Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Motors Corp., flew into Washington to accept the job as Eisenhower's Secretary of Defense, and promptly got into a free-for-all headline row with his colleagues and the U.S. Senate. With a stubbornness new to Washington, Wilson fought the law which unequivocally required that he get rid of his 39,470 shares of General Motors stock before taking office. Cartoonists had a field day with his unruly grey thatch and his round, heavy-jowled face-which, at the time, generally bore an expression of outrage. From a public relations point of view, no U.S. Cabinet officer ever...
...over an equal number of little blue books must seem a mildly appalling, impersonal way of testing knowledge. While the mass examination is thus an admitted evil, even its loudest enemies will admit that it is a necessary evil for a large University. But if the University cannot rid itself of the exam system, it should, without sacrificing the content of the tests, try to make the ordeal as easy as possible...
While the gang was getting rid of Sticht, police were questioning the Panther captured at the gas station. He named names; the whole gang was rounded up, and all were sentenced to two years in reform school. Not one Panther mentioned the murder of Sticht. When they got out in 1949, Werner drew up a constitution for the gang: "Security for all members, adequate living standards, 1,500,000 Deutsche Mark ($357,143) to be amassed by all possible means, legal or illegal. . . treason to Panther Bande punishable by death." The document was signed in blood. Werner lost no time...
...United States today, the movement to get rid of legal murder is linked to an attempt to make prisons what they should be; rehabilitation institutions to cure the criminally ill. Osborne, Lewis E. Lawes, and Miriam Van Waters the rehabilitation concept opposes the archaic idea that criminals should be punished for punishment's sake...
After six years of scrimping and saving, going into bankruptcy and buying himself out again, Ashe got rid of his debt. By 1936, he had managed to buy up 59 acres, collect 1,000 students. Then, during the war, the university suddenly began to boom. R.A.F. trainees and G.I.s were sent there by the thousands. After them came hordes of veterans. With a $5,000,000 loan from FHA, Ashe started creating the campus he had always dreamed of. In 1947, he opened the streamlined Memorial Classroom Building-the first real building the university had ever...