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...Gopher plant never actually opened. A monument to something or other, it stood by, complete to the last broom, as insurance. Last week, the U.S. did not even need that insurance...
World War II found him a lieutenant general, commanding in Egypt. This side spot became a hot spot after the fall of France, and Wilson became the "broom" of Wa veil's famous "broom and dustpan" tactics of sweeping up the Italians. Later he handled the campaigns in Iraq and Syria with notable deftness, using small forces to head off the pressing danger of German penetration into the Middle East. In 1943 he held the Middle Eastern command, with the Ninth and Tenth Armies, the job from which he was ordered to Algiers and the overall Mediterranean command...
...Jersey's new, broom-wielding Governor Walter Evans Edge struck a blow at the very vitals of the kakistocracy* in Democratic Boss Frank Hague's Hudson County. He signed into law a bill passed by the Republican-dominated legislature, compelling Hudson County to install voting machines in each of its 658 election districts. To Hudson County dwellers, who have known only the juggernaut Hague machine (X marks the voter, dead or alive) for 27 years, this was a shock. No longer will Boss Hague be able to sit back on election night, wait until all other Jersey votes...
...Honor pitched in with new-broom vigor. His first official act was hilarious: a warning to gangsters to get out of town. The warning created some surprise, since Washington crimes are historically either passionate or political. After further thought, The Man announced: "Slums should be eliminated, insofar as possible...
...understand a sanitation problem you have to understand the work. . . . During the snow period we operate big brooms. A person driving that equipment goes through a very tense period. What I mean is: we have very few windshield wipers to wipe the snow away-have to open the windshield of the machine so you could see. The outcome is this, that as the broom works, it sweeps the snow in the air and the wind blows it in the cab, and the result is that eight hours of that continuous work, you'll have icicles running down your eyes...