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...asked, "Has Vaughan been fired?" he replied, significantly, "Not yet." He was asked if he thought cabinet members who tolerated corruption should be fired. He answered: "What's so wonderful about a cabinet member?" He waxed sarcastic when someone wanted to know why Truman had ordered the cleanup drive. "Who," he intoned, "is to know whether the Angel Gabriel appeared to the President...
...press conference, when a reporter asked a question which might have brought a sharp reply, Truman managed to drop a homely colloquialism into his answer. Did the President have any comment on the House Judiciary subcommittee's refusal to grant immunity powers to Newbold Morris, his cleanup man? Truman replied that he thought Morris, to do a bangup job, should be able to promise cooperative key witnesses immunity from prosecution. The immunity was his own idea, he said, and there wasn't any bug under the chip (meaning concealed or secret, according to The American Thesaurus of Slang...
...cleanup job that Harry Truman promised for his malodorous federal house loomed as one of Augean scope when Judge Thomas Murphy backed away from it last December. The President seemed to have in mind a formidable probe and prosecution, a Democratic version of the Republicans' famed Teapot Dome inquiry. Last week the job turned out to be far less heroic in proportions. It called for a special assistant to the Attorney General, with powers only to investigate, leaving prosecution up to Attorney General Howard McGrath. After reportedly being refused by two other eminent lawyers (the late Robert Patterson...
...test match, 109-54. In the second match, the U.S. did better, only lost 94-83. The Scotsmen played a camay, conservative game, in sharp contrast to the generally slam-bang U.S. style. The Scots used blockade tactics in front of the scoring circle until the skip, comparable to cleanup batter in baseball, could send his final stone down to nudge his teammates' into the bull...
Last spring, when the odor of influence-peddling and political loans in the RFC finally penetrated Truman's nostrils, he called Battler Symington in as the cleanup man. Symington fired employees who had become entangled in the influence web, and opened loan files to public scrutiny. When he decided that the world's tin producers were gouging the U.S., he slashed the price the RFC would pay for tin. This brought cries of anguish from Bolivia, and got Symington into an argument with the State Department. Now that Symington is leaving, the Bolivians hope to win the argument...