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...There was the smirk of Hjalmar Schacht, in his neat office in Düsseldorf, insinuating politely: "Perhaps now you realize that it is not so easy for a people to get rid of demagogues just by wishing them to go away...
...Europe is the topic, being careful, of course, not to let his expression be accurately interpreted as one of ignorance. Since, however, even people who have been to Europe are usually bored when others talks about it, the Inpatriate should occasionally interject a question such as, "Has England got rid of that awful Chamberlain yet?' In the ensuing astonishment someone is bound to ask, "What! Haven't you been across?" It is now that you apply the clincher, the beauty of this ploy being the two possible routes of denouement...
First Class. Applegate and his companions had seen so little of China that they were little help to correspondents trying to check up on reports of British Labor Party Leader Attlee's group. But when a reporter asked whether the Communists had rid China of flies, as Attlee's party had said, Applegate, Dixon and Krasner guffawed. They said that their cells were vermin-infested, and killing flies and bugs was one of the few ways they passed their time. Applegate once counted 412 insects squashed on the walls of his cell...
...lost money. "It's the goddam critics' fault," Jed sneered. When the theater folded. Jed went to hack in a hell called Hollywood: "His heart jumped in his chest. For the first time it occurred to him that now he was going to be rich." He got rid of his first wife ("a peasant") and married his second (who gave his life a "Brahmin note...
...Henry Ford never liked outside stockholders in his company. He quarreled bitterly with them from 1903 until 1919, when he paid $75 million to get rid of them once and for all. But since his death in 1947 automen have often heard rumors that Ford Co. stock would be put on the market. Each time, the rumors were false. Last week the rumor was going around again, and this time Henry Ford II conceded that it was "pretty reliable." However, said Henry Ford II, "the stock which may be put up for sale is owned by the Ford Foundation...