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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...
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...
Muckraking in the Augean stables of U. S. politics was at its height in the day of Theodore Roosevelt, who coined the phrase. But it still goes on and there is always a man with a hoe, a gentleman with a duster or a lady with a new broom to do what by definition is an endless job. Muckraking Katherine Mayo, not content with trying to tidy up one sty, has gone a-raking into other people's barnyards. Her Mother India, a sensational account of conditions among women in India, still rankles in many a Hindu breast. Isles...
...Mayor deserves an even better fate. Riotously jovial satire, it sets ringing no tocsin of reform but the welkin echoes its topical tintinnabulations. Aside from and under its uproarious humor, Hizzoner the Mayor has grimmer implications that need underlining nowadays for few U. S. citizens. In the perennial Augean task of turning the rascals out, such hearty slapstick broom-thwacks as Author Sayre's may be as effective in the long run as all the Herculean street-cleaning apparatus of a Judge Seabury...