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...figured he could reduce government personnel by at least 6% simply by not filling vacancies that occurred through death and resignations. In addition he would throw out some drones. Said Douglas sternly in a distinctly un-New Dealish voice: "Getting rid of these people would actually raise the output because it would create better morale and a greater will to work in the remainder of the personnel...
...What the art world needs is to get rid of the bright people-the intellectuals," declared roughhewn Painter Thomas Hart Benton, in New Orleans on a lecture tour. "There are too many intellectuals anyway. Theoretically it's possible for an artist to be an intellectual, but it's not likely . . . Artists don't need brains...
...futures of big business, and the authors give most of their book to methods of sweetening people, homes, theaters, industrial products and the air around odoriferous factories. It is crude, they think, to conceal a bad smell by a stronger, pleasanter odor. A more efficient method is to get rid of the bad smell itself. This can often be done by washing it out of the air with water or absorbing it in activated carbon...
...significant and unwholesome broadening of the chartering process for value judgments about an organization to enter the discussion as to whether it should get a charter. The Council must rid itself of the conception that chartering an organization constitutes endorsement of the group or what it stands for. The same criteria which today are applied to social clubs tomorrow will be applied to political clubs...
...strategy was up to Sam, Harry Truman added. Labor leaders also gagged at the idea of accepting the hated injunction. Nevertheless, they quietly passed the word to their friends in Congress to support Sam's substitute. They were even ready to accept the injunction if they could get rid of most of the Taft-Hartley Act. That is, the majority of them were. John Lewis, who had had to pay through the nose for defying injunctions, was dead set against any compromise...