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...running out of names, so I called Jim Carr, president of the Riley Memorial Association. He told me that Judge Will Hough at Greenfield, where Riley was born, might be able to help. The judge asked me why I didn't get hold of one of Rid-path's two daughters. I said that I had been told there were no living Ridpath descendants. He said that was peculiar because he had seen one of them, Mrs. Myrtle Cook, in Greenfield a few days before. The other, a Mrs. Thayer, lived in Indianapolis...
Some Republicans wanted no part of McCarthy. Former Secretary of State Henry Stimson urged the Congress not to encourage "the noisy antics" of "these little men." McCarthy, said Stimson, "is not trying to get rid of known Communists in the State Department; he is hoping against hope that he will find some...
After the airline crash in Quebec last autumn which took the lives of three Kennecott Copper Corp. executives and 20 others (TIME, Sept. 19), investigators turned up shocking evidence. The crash was no accident; it was planned murder. To get rid of his wife, who was aboard the plane, a jeweler named Albert Guay had planted a dynamite bomb in the freight compartment. Last week a trial jury took just 14 minutes to find Guay guilty. The sentence: death by hanging...
...know a thing we can do about him," Randall said. "We thought of all sorts of ways to get rid of the owl quietly last year, but the University wouldn't hear of any of them...
...Hotel Nacional suite, Prío postponed official announcement of the deal and rallied his forces. Led by the conductors, whom Pawley had promised to keep on the job, the trolley union lined up behind the new plan. Straphangers enthusiastically supported Prío for forcing action to rid Havana of its noisy, run-down trolleys. The influential weekly Bohemia hailed Pawley as "one of the most distinguished figures in the U.S., whose various enter prises, including aviation firms in India and China, make his biography a true teaching in industry and social service...