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...Edith Rockefeller McCormick were no longer living together. Alex Cochran and Walska lived briefly together in his Murray Hill home. Then in 1920 divorce proceedings started. Madame Walska, with Dudley Field Malone for her lawyer, issued a statement that ''if he [Cochran] wants to get rid of me he must pay until it hurts for his own good...
Since the large size of the course and the general mediocrity of the section men prohibits organization of the course on the model of French 6, in which fairly small classes meet under competent men three times a week, the obvious way to get rid of the ungainly professorial chorines participating in the revue is to entrust the course to one interested man, who would give at least two, perhaps three lectures a week throughout the year. Only in this way can the unity and coherence so necessary and so lacking now be gained. A comparable system gives excellent results...
...Loesch grinned slightly when he recalled his first attempts to clean up Chicago under the Thompson regime. "It took us two months to get rid of Big Bill's police chief, Hughes. Once we got him before the grand jury, the Thompson machine itself forced him to resign. The work we then started back in 1928 has not stopped; today men such as Police Chief Allman are valiantly fighting crime in Chicago. Definitely less corruption exists there than in New York...
...discord between Hitler and Göring is club-footed little Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, increasingly mighty as his Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment rivets its control ever tighter on Germany's press, radio, drama and cinema. Dr. Goebbels' scheme for getting rid of the Premier of Prussia is simply to abolish Prussia as a State. Last week General Göring, fighting for his Premier-hood, was able to force into one and only one Berlin newspaper a short account of a call he had just made on President von Hindenburg...
...America (84 boards), which sent him and others touring the U. S. last autumn (TIME, Dec. 11). Said Dr. Jones: "I will go back to India heartened and convinced that the soul of the church is sound. . . . There is an undertone of craving for Christian unity. . . . We must get rid of the cleavage between denominations. No Christianity can compete with Marxian Communism and Islam that has race exclusiveness at heart...