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...they built workhouses in the worst parts. Youngsters who have come of age since the war have no idea what the workhouses were like, of the dread people felt that they would one day wind up in one. I am proud to have been the minister responsible for getting rid of the workhouses...
...last week, a Hindu who wanted to get rid of his wife had only to say: "Get thee to thy father's house: I will take another." Hindu .custom permitted polygamy, although it was a general practice only among the rich and among India's 35 million Moslems...
...puppet created by the French colonials . . . leading a dissolute life far from his people." They declared him "deposed," and tore his photograph from the wall and trampled on it. Claiming to speak for 18 nationalist parties, they urged Diem to repress the rebel sects and get rid of the 90,000-man French expeditionary force...
...Commons, Bessie Braddock has irritated, amused and disgusted other M.P.s, but has ended by winning a grudging admiration from most. "Our people are living in flea-ridden, bug-ridden, rat-ridden, lousy hellholes," she told them. "I will continue to agitate and kick up a row until we get rid of these evils." When the Tories walked out to protest one Labor bill, Bessie (in the words of one reporter) "rose from her seat and made a few steps forward, then a few steps backward. She then arched her body and minced across the floor of the House with...
...agencies, found it worked so well that it is now using them in more than half the nation. To help the Government sell a $90 million chunk of its surplus real estate, GSA called in private brokers to find clients and to close sales. Elsewhere, the Government has gotten rid of a whole grab bag of business activities it got into because nobody else could or would. It liquidated the Island Trading Co., a copra and trading firm (1954 sales: $3,000,000) set up by U.S. occupation officials in the Southwest Pacific, at a net profit...