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...thought McKesson & Robbins was being badly managed, asked him to look into it. Mr. Catchings was told by President Coster that the wholesale drug departments, which did the bulk of the company's business, had got their assets frozen. Coster proposed a stockholders' equity receivership to get rid of the wholesalers, but Mr. Catchings talked him out of that. Instead, Coster persuaded the directors to hire Mr. Catchings at $5,000 a month as chairman of an operations committee, with the understanding that he was to have nothing to do with operations. His job was to check...
...Presidents of the U. S. for many years had a good method of getting rid of any inconvenient politician: to make him Governor-General of the Philippines. Like a cat looking at a President, Homer Martin, whom John L. Lewis still tolerates as head of the United Automobile Workers, last week gave jobs to five U. A. W. vice presidents...
...interview at Doom during "that tense last week of September." Author "Burckhardt" pictured the once All-Highest pacing up and down and throwing off such amazing indiscretions as: "There's a man alone, without family, without children, without God. Why should he be human? . . . He has got rid of, or even killed . . . Papen, Schleicher, Neurath-and even Blomberg. He has nothing left but a bunch of shirted gangsters...
...week in the Journal of the American Medical Association Dr. Short described the historic deflation which followed, the case of a human being who parted with 60% of her body and lived to tell the tale. During the first month she lost twelve pounds, in 20 months she got rid of 239 pounds. Only discomfort she suffered was the surgical removal of an apron of skin, two feet long and one foot wide, which hung loosely over her deflated abdomen. When she weighed in at 156 pounds, said Dr. Short, "she was in excellent health and spirits...
According to Butterfield the two Princeton professors, feeling secretly inferior, took refuge subconsciously in aphasia to remove their abulia. They tried to rid themselves of their inferior feeling and increase their inferior felling and increase their own ego by calling Princeton men, "Style-setting, smooth, gentlemanly, loyal-to-college, and socialite...