Word: augean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Editor, before we enter into another's Augean stables let us first clean out our own. Perhaps the example will be infectious. Elmer H. Cutts...
Massachusetts. Leverett Saltonstall, who came in after eight Democratic years, inherited an Augean mess from the Hurley-Curley administrations. He declared that no man who was doing a decent, necessary job need fear the ax, then proceeded to go after other jobholders (see p. 40). Of more concern to Massachusetts was his announced conviction that despite all economies the State tax on cities & towns would have to be upped from a record $17,000,000 last year to perhaps...
Lincoln Steffens once called Boston the most corrupt city in the U. S. During the past eight years the Boston political machine ruled State as well as city. Last week Massachusetts' new Governor, cowcatcher-chinned Leverett Saltonstall, began the Augean task of purging Massachusetts of corruption. First pile into which he plunged his shovel was the State Education Department...
Opponents of the League speak in terms of the past and not of the future. They do not realize that all the Ivy Colleges are face to face with problems similar to Harvard, and that the Augean stables of professionalism look as filthy to undergraduates there as they do here. Such critics point to minor differences in standards--which they would remove most of the pressure from highly professionalized antagonists. United in self-defense and cooperation, the seven colleges can elevate without fear of repercussion, the standards to a common high through uniform eligibility rules, fixed practice sessions, and similar...
...characteristic story is told of him that, when he returned to Paris after having finished his Augean task in Hungary, he signed his name in the hotel register simply "J. Smith," as was his usual practice; and though internationally famous, to his delight he escaped being found by reporters and officials for almost a week...