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...played Hercules to Detroit's Augean stables was nearly ready to lay down his muckrake this week. In three years he had cleaned up more filth than any other municipal investigator in U.S. history, had mopped up $1,000,000 worth of graft, had swept out gambling and vice rackets which took in $20,000,000 a year, had pitchforked nearly a dozen city officials and scores of corrupt policemen. Now the middeny stables were sweet-smelling again. The name of this Hercules: Homer Ferguson...
...interdepartmental committee takes formal control of priorities on capital funds. After the war, he foresees a major readjustment job for SEC, administering capital priorities in reverse. But the Commission's chief job, now and henceforward, is less exciting. Keeping the U.S. financial stables clean is no longer an Augean task. It requires, not a Hercules, but a smart and well-trained staff of janitors...
...Augean stables of the defense program had been cleansed before, but they were still in a mess...
...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...
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...