Word: cleaned
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...occasion, in order to keep the honor from little Governor Arthur H. James-Willkie promised to appoint a man as Secretary of Labor ("it's a man's job"), to revise NLRB through special legislation, to extend Social Security, to enforce the wage-hour law, to clean out Communists in the Government. He asked labor to clean house of its racketeers. The speech went well with the audience, was said, unofficially, to have pleased C. I. O.'s John L. Lewis, A. F. of L.'s William Green...
Redhaired, blue-eyed Bruce Barton, 54-year-old advertising tycoon, made millions selling Americans on reading (Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf); on clean collars (Cluett-Peabody collar ads); on shaving (Gillette); on working (Alexander Hamilton Institute); on Jesus and the Bible (The Man Nobody Knows, The Book Nobody Knows). Barton, a born preacher and sloganeer, a superb luncheon-club speaker, son of a Tennessee clergyman, implemented his creed of service by fighting his way into Congress in 1938 as an amateur from Manhattan's only Republican district-the Silk-Stocking Seventeenth, compounded of Park Avenue and nearby...
Upshot of this assignment: New York City was "swept clean" of streetwalkers and Dr. Flexner got a key to the Rockefeller millions. In his 15 years on the Rockefeller General Education Board, Dr. Flexner helped create top-notch medical schools all over the U. S., launched progressive Lincoln School, steered the Rockefeller wealth into many another exemplary enterprise. When he retired from G. E. B. in 1928, philanthropists refused to give him peace, implored him to spend their money. At the urging of Newark Merchant Louis Bamberger, Dr. Flexner took $5,000,000 to start the Institute for Advanced Study...
...Streets in Manhattan's lower East Side. He watches one of them grow into a scrappy little pug (James Cagney) who almost wins the world's championship, another become a sultry, sirenic dancer (Ann Sheridan), another a sneering gangster named Googi (Elia Kazan),still another a willowy, clean-cut composer (Arthur Kennedy...
Touchy as a boil on the subject of foreign policy, which was heatedly discussed at last night's mass meeting, the Harvard Student Union will next week be split clean through, no matter which of its two factions wins out. Developing all last year, intellectual tension is now at the breaking point between President Alan Gottlieb's pro-aid-to-Britain, pro-Roosevelt group, and the Marx-Stange faction favoring no aid to Britain and branding Roosevelt as a war-monger. Inevitably the break will weaken the HSU, and tend to depress still further the strong but gradually waning student...