Word: broom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Much Success. Since the Generalissimo appointed him governor last December, Wu has ably wielded the broom of reform. He has managed to halt inflation by curbs on the amount of money in circulation. Wu has also managed to repeat his feat of Hankow: he has balanced Formosa's budget-not without drastic forced loans and capital levies...
...years after the first arrest, New Jersey's Governor Alfred E. Driscoll signed a full pardon, and another would probably be available soon for Betty Lester, since enfeebled by a stroke. Sixty-four-year-old Cliff Shephard, tearfully pleased with the final triumph of justice, laid aside his broom and towel, thanked the State for excusing the crimes he had never committed...
...didn't go along with the report at all. The Organization of American States' coffee commission whipped out a report charging, among other things, that Senator Gillette was encouraging Communism by trying to get the price of coffee down. The ambassadors themselves huddled for days at sage, broom-browed Mauricio Nabuco's Brazilian embassy, batted out a lengthy rebuttal of the Gillette report ("it proposes . . . [potential] economic warfare against our nations"), defended the year's 70% rise in coffee prices as the natural consequence of "the law of supply & demand...
...cheers of spectators, the three with milkshakes, a store broom, and a ladder proceeded to extinguish the burning awning...
Just about everybody seemed to be in favor of sweeping with a wide broom through the nation's military hospitals. Defense Secretary Louis Johnson was sure that he could save more than $25 million by closing down five of them and reducing the staff of 13 other military and naval hospitals. He had behind him the documented findings of the Hoover Commission, which were studded with instances where one branch of the service reared up costly hospitals in areas where another service had long wards of empty beds. Who was blocking these reforms? Last week the finger pointed...