Word: cleaned
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Chapin Jones, Virginia State Forester, asked Governor John Garland Pollard to urge his people to extraordinary care in setting blazes. In Georgia, where officials have been trying to educate people to adopt the plow-under method of spring clean-up as a means of soil enrichment, Governor Lamartine Griffin Hardman pressed his campaign for fire prevention among all planters...
...that Mr. Curtis would be 72 in 1932, recalled his pre-convention hostility to Herbert Hoover in 1928. What gave these stories a substance of reality was the fact that "General" Brown has been deputized by President Hoover to handle most of the Southern patronage, to set up clean new State organizations...
...early, still, to begin thinking about the Yale tennis match, but there's quite a lot to consider, nevertheless. The Harvard tennis team, in returning from another undefeated tour of the South, has run, its string of consecutive victories to 17. Last year it had a clean slate . . . in fact, the only match lost by a Harvard tennis team at all was that in which the Freshmen outplayed the Seconds! The year before, the University team lost only to Pennsylvania. In Norfolk, this Spring, the team romped over William and Mary, 9 to 0; the Norfolk Country Club...
...When in 1919 and 1920 Prohibition was a 'new broom, it swept clean.' Since then we went backward for a time . . . but at no time to where we started. . . . We seem now to be passing through Prohibition at Its Worst. . . . The liquor problem, like the race problem, is an insoluble problem and will remain so for at least a generation. . . . All the evils of Prohibition claimed by the Wets exist. . . . But what is their program for coping with these evils? Virtually they have none, because they have so many and none of them practicable...
...consoling part of the trip, however is the fact that the victories were both clean-cut triumphs while the defeats all were by close scores, two by one run margins and two by two run margins. The brightest day of the trip was Wednesday when an 8 to 2 victory over the Quantico Marines avenged a grudge of two years standing. That was also the first win of the season since before that the Pioneers of Boston University had captured the opener 5 to 3 and Devens had been shaded in a pitching duel by Wallace of William and Mary...