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...reply. The cordiality shown in their exchange was only letter-deep. Old Pro India had always considered Political Amateur Mitchell naive and impractical. When Mitchell set out to "integrate" the women's division into the general national committee organization, India was sure that he was trying to get rid of her. At first, she thought she could outlast him. But Amateur Mitchell turned out to have considerable staying powers of his own. After he consolidated his position and erased the last traces of the women's division at the Democrats' big rally in Chicago last month...
...Government had also asked that G.E. be ordered to get rid of half its lamp-making facilities. But Judge Forman tossed out the U.S. request as "neither feasible nor in the public interest." G.E. has not decided whether it will appeal...
...husband, Willie Bauché, who is having hives, hay fever and asthma at the thought of having lost her to Rainier. Willie is a Hollywood "universal genius" and triple-decker phony, not quite real enough to be Apathetic. Willie finally hires a killer to get rid of Rainier. But the killer is killed himself, and Rainier goes to Korea, leaving Ann desolate but able to understand a bit of the old Cavalier compulsion...
...editorial lauded the President for "turning his back on the 'wisdom' of President Eliot" who had in 1909 called for a rational faith without metaphysical rites. Pusey's statement Wednesday had been that "He (Eliot) was wrong . . . in urging his generation to get rid of what he called 'paganized Christianity' by eschewing metaphysics and by escaping into a formless empyrean of good will." Pusey recommended instead a firm grasp and fresh understanding of what he called "first things...
...barely at 25,000, Northcliffe decided the paper was a "mad frolic" because "women can't write, and don't want to read." He ordered his editor to fire the staff and start over again, remaking the Mirror as Britain's first popular picture daily. Getting rid of the women, said one of Northcliffe's editors, "was a horrid experience-like drowning kittens. They begged to be allowed to stay. They left little presents on my desk, waylaid me tearfully in the corridors." But the change worked. By 1914, when Northcliffe took vigorous personal control...