Word: cleanness
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...infamous suggestion!" The little Virginian was now mad clean through. '"And I don't say that under the shelter of constitutional immunity, either. You have suggested that I interpolated the word 'laughter' in the Record...
...against hard times. It had passed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, a vast experiment in Federal development of natural resources. The Emergency Railroad Act had provided Federal direction for a program to end wasteful duplication of services among the nation's carriers. The Securities bill was designed to clean up the evils of stock jobbery. The national banking structure had been reformed by the Glass-Steagall bill...
...when New York's Doctor-Senator Copeland left Washington with a committee to investigate hoodlumism in New York, Detroit, Chicago. The Recovery Act may also be used as a weapon against labor racketeering since an industry's labor will, like its management, be obliged to make a clean breast before the Industrial Recovery Administration...
...University of California, fortnight ago announced a project the nature of which would cause an ethical shudder if proposed in the East. The Big C will appoint a fulltime representative to canvass secondary and high schools for young athletes and tell them about California "as a place of clean athletics combined with sound scholastic standards." The Big C man will be paid a salary. The Big C asks friends to help. Funds will be audited, kept out of the hands of athletes. Needy men may be helped to get jobs, "but only bona fide jobs...
...back taxes had accumulated, the stockholders, including Architect Benjamin Marshall (of both the Blackstone and Drake), Vincent Bendix and the McCormick estate, put through a voluntary reorganization. Metropolitan Life extended its $4,000,000 mortgage and $180,000 in defaulted interest and loaned the hotel enough to clean up the taxes. As their contribution the Brothers Drake tore up their old contract calling for a cut in the profits, took instead a new one providing for $15,000 each for their services in an "administrative and advisory" capacity, living expenses including nine rooms each and the right to entertain...