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...that France has got rid of her first and only Socialist Premier, hectic Léon ("New Deal") Blum, the British last week were ready to give important financial aid to new Middle Class Premier Edouard Daladier. President Roosevelt was ready...
Were the Cardinals gladly getting rid of a problem child who had caused them many a headache? Were they turning a potential liability (Dizzy Dean won only 13 games and lost 10 last year) into a cash asset? Were they going to concentrate on attack this year with such powerful sluggers as Joe Medwick, Johnny Mize and highly touted Rookie Enos Slaughter? Was Dizzy a has-been like his brother Paul, who was sent back to the minors fortnight ago? And if his arm was bad, why did the Cubs, co-favorites with the Giants to win the National League...
...spokesman for Mrs. Wilbur K. Jordan, Dean of undergraduates, said yesterday that no "censorship" had been invoked, and expressed the opinion that the H. D. C. had been wanting to get rid of Radcliffe girls for some time...
Under capitalism he felt that productive capacity could not be fully utilized. At least, "I don't think so." Nor could it erase depressions. "The best way," Hicks concluded, "of getting rid of capitalism is by joining communism...
...estate is least convertible-that most States have passed laws against it. The 1906 New York Insurance code forbade insurance companies to own any land or buildings that they did not do business in or that they had not acquired through mortgage foreclosures-and these they had to get rid of again within five years. Most other States followed New York. But between 1921 and 1926 when there was a shortage of houses in the U. S. and real estate no longer seemed a poor investment, New York added an amendment: Insurance companies could buy land if they immediately...