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...uproar swelled, the homeward-bound Congressmen wearily realized that the price for getting rid of Will Clayton had been too high. One of their first jobs after the election recess will probably be to patch up the bill...
...Rid Us of Reed. In the Senate fight on the League, Jim Reed was the leader of the "irreconcilables." When Wilson stumped the country on his ill-fated tour, Jim Reed stumped after him, city by city, pouring invective, satire and bitterness over the Wilson converts, scourging them back into line...
...this action, Missouri Democrats read him out of the party, denied him a seat at the 1920 national convention. Two years later, when he was up for reelection to the Senate, virtually every pro-League advocate in the country joined in the chorus: "Rid Us of Reed." Woodrow Wilson himself marshaled the anti-Reed forces from his Washington sickbed...
...simple price of murder. This opportunity is presented to Neff by one of his clients, a Mrs. Dietrichson (Miss Stanwyck), who wants to buy life insurance for her husband and then make certain that it gets used pronto. The wily Miss Dietrichson uses Neff to get rid of her spouse in a railroad "accident" that pays her double indemnity as the beneficiary...
This does not mean that there is an egg shortage in sight. War Food Administration has on its hands 1,400,000 cases of eggs-approximately a half billion eggs. WFA is still frantically trying to get rid of eggs. Warehouse space is badly needed, some eggs are turning rotten (TIME, Aug. 21). Helpfully, eggmen recently tried to buy 47,000 cases stored in Providence. But WFA promptly turned them down: the bids were not so high as WFA's rigid high ceilings. Many eggs turned bad while the price rose...