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...will be so involved in it that we will never be able to terminate it," argued Millikin. "We will have such big payrolls, so many vested interests, so many clerks . . . lawyers . . . consultants . . . commissions . . . joint commissions, that there will be no way in God's world of getting rid of it. The Senator knows that," he mimicked Connally...
Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer decided to get rid of two top employees who had become politically embarrassing. Last week he abruptly ordered 32-year-old Economist William Remington and 42-year-old Michael J. Lee, chief of Commerce's Far Eastern division, to quit or be fired. Both men were currently in the middle of new Government checks on their loyalty, and Economist Remington was under investigation by a federal grand jury in Manhattan, but Charles Sawyer said his dismissal notice was "in no wise intended to reflect in any way on the loyalty of either of these...
...Newspapers just have to keep hitting and hitting at these guys if we're going to get rid of them," said Fingold. One of the State's leading racket-busters, he recently testified before a Senate subcommittee on nation-wide crime syndicates...
Regarding your article concerning my recent efforts to rid Henderson County of rabid foxes [TIME...
...also want to be the U.S. "chosen instrument" for worldwide cable communications. They argue that Western Union should get rid of its cable business, which was a condition to the Postal Telegraph merger. Western Union contends that it needs the overseas revenue, plus a clear field in the U.S. telegram business, before it can be sure of a profitable living in competition with its remaining rivals, the airmail letter and the telephone...