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Once a few idealistic New Dealers tried to get rid of him. Young, chubby William E. Dodd Jr., son of the late U.S. Ambassador to Germany, took up residence on the paternal Virginia farm just before the 1938 Congressional campaign started, got some amateur help, was roundly trounced by the bored courthouse crowd...
...pouch of tobacco for his pains. The State of New York got 10? an acre for the land. Even so, for 116 years it was a bad investment. The mine went through the wringer many times, closed down in 1914. One trouble was the cost of getting rid of the titanium in the ore, for nobody wanted titanium then...
...manner—"blood money came along." Tanks, jeeps, etc., with two-way radios had to have noise filters, and the ones available elsewhere were bulky and expensive. Tobe barged into the Signal Corps laboratory at Fort Monmouth, NJ. early in 1940 to try for some business. More to get rid of him than anything else, the Major in charge gave him the toughest problem he had: to make a practical filter for a Diesel generator that so far had rendered useless the radio that had to go in the same car. In two months, Tobe's engineers...
Among them was Harry Hopkins. He tapped Somervell for the biggest relief job in the country, the New York City WPA, which had worn out two administrators, including old Hugh Johnson. At that time the red-bordered Workers' Alliance was shouting "Get rid of Ridder" (Johnson successor) and Somervell went in wryly offering a new battle cry: "Sink Somervell...
Pugnacious, pug-nosed Publisher Eleanor ("Cissie") Patterson, whose Washington Times-Herald is sometimes referred to as "The Hen House," last week wound up one of her mussiest barnyard fights. In a front-page box she announced that she had got rid of Columnists Pearson & Allen (Washington Merry-Go-Round) because they had made "poisonous attempts" to "smear" General MacArthur...