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...sold well, and Marx was made a Strauss director. One day the directors discussed whether the company should continue to manufacture and sell in its four retail stores in New York or give up selling. Marx alone urged Strauss to get out of the retail field. Instead of getting rid of the stores, Strauss got rid of Marx...
...first time) provided the new battle cries. Red China's ubiquitous loudspeakers dinned his down-on-the-farm phrases about bound-foot hobblers into a billion ears. Because Mao had said that the great mass of poor farmers were in reality pining to join collectives, "to rid themselves of their poverty," local committees proclaimed class war against "newly rich peasants and counterrevolutionaries" who had sprung up by "spontaneous capitalist influence" after Mao's original land redistributions...
...next day, two delegations of students, representing 33 juniors and seniors on the team, most Cassill and asked for Cherberg's removal. They accused him of "tyrannical methods," adding that "squad action to get rid of him has been a long time in the brewing...
Delighted to be rid of him at last, the Nationalist government permitted Trevor Huddleston to preach his last major sermon over a national broadcasting hookup, but warned him not to discuss politics. He delivered a strong indictment of the government, and called apartheid "blasphemy" and "refusal of God's plan and purpose." That was not politics, he later told angry government officials, but simple Christianity...
Snapped Strobel, who has been fighting with Mansure over GSA procedures: "I didn't want anybody snooping around my private business. Besides, I had other things to do. I was working 12 hours a day. If they want to get rid of me, they'll have to fire me. I'm not the kind of man who runs...