Word: ridded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statements by Mellett that he had been threatened specifically by the Canton police and "vice lords" for "inter-fering." The public learned more about one "Harry-the-Greek" Bouklias and one Harry Turner, convicted perjurers and underworld go-betweens, whose release from the penitentiary Mellett had fought after having rid Canton of their presence. Sleuths nosed along a well-beaten narcotics trade-route between Canton and Pittsburgh that had been prime target of Mellett's vice-crusade...
Miramon Lluagor, who was Manuel's Seneschal of Gontaron, retires to Vraidex, his mountainy magic-seat, and is temporarily rid of his talkative wife, Gisele, by wishing her into the middle of the next week. (It is during Miramon's manipulation of the bright bees of Toupan that Koschei almost falls...
...President at last rid his mind of appointments to the U. S. Tariff Commission and the new Railway Mediation Board. For the Commission he found a suitable farmer, Sherman J. Lowell of Fredonia, N. Y., onetime National Grange president; and Edgar B. Brossard of Utah, already serving on the Commission under a recess appointment. To the Board he added Carl Williams, Oklahoma Democrat, farmer, stockman, editor. The other railway mediators: Representatives Samuel E. Winslow of Massachusetts; onetime Senator Edwin P. Morrow of Kentucky; Gloss-brenner W. W. Hanger of Illinois, public member of the old Railway Labor Board; Hywel Davies...
Farming. The House has passed a measure creating a division of co-operative marketing in the Department of Agriculture, a bureau to assist the farmers with advice and information on how to get rid of their crops profitably. This bill is approved by the Administration. The House defeated (TIME, May 31) the Haugen bill advanced by the farm bloc for raising farm prices by buying up the surpluses of the major crops. In the Senate this second bill was proposed as an amendment to the first, and the whole program of farm relief of any kind was threatened, since neither...
...taxes on the building in 1899 were $38,446. Last year they were $129,120. Naturally Mrs. Vanderbilt wanted to get rid of it. Last year she secured a court order permitting her to sell it for $7,100,000. A syndicate had offered to purchase it at that price. They put down $500,000 as earnest money. In the syndicate were G. Maurice Heckscher, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, grandson of Mrs. Vanderbilt, Leonard Replogle of the steel company of that name, Colonel Henry F. Lindsley, banker and former Mayor of Dallas, Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., member of the U. S. polo...