Word: cleanness
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...months later Leonard Wood was made commander of the recently besieged city of Santiago and quickly established cleanliness, health and order in that hotbed of filth and disease. This led to his appointment soon after as Governor-General of the new Republic of Cuba. There his task was to clean up after the disgrace of the Spanish rule, and to settle the Cuban Government upon a secure and independent footing; in short to preserve for all time the fruits of the victory of 1898. With the eyes of the whole world watching the experiment of the United States, he made...
...that General Leonard Wood '84 should have the support of every Harvard Republican. I should like strongly to endorse Professor Hart's views. At the present time a great many Harvard men are uncertainly casting around trying to decide where they stand politically. Inherently Republicans, and inherently standing for clean politics and the best type of candidates, they have heard and read so much befogging news about party politics and party interests that they fear to step boldly forward as Republicans or to the support of any one of the openly declared candidates. Most of the hesitancy...
...world was horrified by the Bulgarian, Atrocities, and Gladstone aroused Europe with his stirring denouncement of "the unspeakable Turk." For a time it seemed that humanity would come into its own and that civilization would clean up this dark corner of Europe. But the selfish interests that prevailed in the Congress of Berlin, left the Turk unrestrained in his bloody work. Now, more than forty years later, the phrase "Armenian massacre" has become so trite that we hardly give it a passing thought...
...square deal" to those whom they seek to dispossess of power. If we seek to dispossess of power. If we seek to dispossess the radicals of the power they now have, is it just to apply their own maxims against them? "He who seeks justice must come with clean hands." J. M. WOOD...
With the great extension of state functions during the last fifty years has come an ever-increasing need for efficient administration and clean politics. This demand has not been adequately answered. Our city governments, with a few notable exceptions, have drifted farther and farther from political decency, and the national administration is too often wrapt up in a maze of red tape...