Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...change-of-party new administration, the problem of patronage has three elements: 1) getting rid of the patronage appointees of the preceding administration to assure loyalty to the new regime, 2) getting good men to fill the vacant jobs, 3) rewarding the politically faithful to keep the party machinery going for future elections. The three-way problem (which the Republicans have not faced since Harding succeeded Wilson) has slowed down the Eisenhower Administration until GOPoliticos are grumbling impatiently. Last week Dwight Eisenhower moved to solve it by shifting control of patronage from White House Aide Sherman Adams...
...Moreover Mary has been assisted by Emile Gauvreau, once a Macfadden editor, who not only has his own beans to spill about the boss but knows just how to cook Mary's. Mahogany for the Teeth. Mary was 19 when they married; Bernarr was 45. He had already rid himself of two wives' who had proved too brittle to uphold the high Macfadden standards of "divine vitality," so he took no chances with Mary...
...name of Erik Boheman, Sweden's Ambassador to the U.S. Boheman said that he did not want the job, but his name had been in the air just long enough for Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin to hint that perhaps Russia might accept a Swede in order to get rid of Norway's Trygve Lie. French Delegate Henri Hoppenot took the cue, submitted the name of Dag Hammarskjöld (see box). So little known was he that State Department officials had to scurry about for a few hours to see if there might be anything unacceptable...
...Eared. In Santa Fe, N. Mex., telephone service in the state capitol was halted while fumigators got rid of the bedbugs in the main switchboard...
William Jansen, New York City's Superintendent of Schools, told the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee in Washington that he had been fighting to rid his schools of Communists, but that "we are by no means satisfied that we have cleared up the situation." Since 1950, said he. 81 teachers have been fired or suspended. He added: "We have about 180 more under investigation...