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Picked by President Eisenhower to head the cluttered, musty Federal Trade Commission in 1953, Washington Lawyer Edward F. Howrey immediately set about using a stiff new broom. He brought back FTC as the umpire of U.S. business practices, cleared up a mammoth backlog of antitrust and unfair-practice cases. Last week, when he resigned, Chairman Howrey was able to tell the President: "The Commission has been reorganized from top to bottom. Its docket is up-to-date for the first time in almost 40 years. Its policies have been reoriented to the original intent of Congress...
Like most Spanish intellectuals since his day, Goya was a liberal at war with himself. When Napoleon invaded Spain in 1808, Goya at first welcomed what he hoped would be a clean broom. But his patriotic heart went out to the defenders, and he finally engraved on his dagger the words: "Death to the French." Still, he lived on the fringes of the invader's court, painted French generals as well as Spanish. He also portrayed the triumphant Wellington, and finally, though with obvious distaste, the returned King Ferdinand VII. Vacillating and bad-tempered though Goya was, no ruler...
...hospitalization or death benefits, and overseas volunteers were looked on as specially brave. Once, when Mrs. Hobby asked for volunteers, "there were 300 women in the room, of whom 298 volunteered upon the instant. At this, Director Hobby was unable to continue speaking and hastily sought privacy in a broom closet...
...pounds at a time without its affecting my margarine purchases . . . If my example is any criterion, the Department of Agriculture's bitter butter problem could be solved in a few short weeks . . . Golly, I'd like to go into that department with my old WAC broom...
Candidate Barros campaigned with flamboyant confidence, proclaimed himself the next Brazilian President (by law, President Joâo Café Filho cannot succeed himself), and offered a 1,000,000-cruzeiro ($55,000) reward to anyone who could prove him a thief. Taking a broom as his campaign's cleanup symbol, Quadros appealed to the downtrodden with such rabble-rousing slogans as "War on the Corrupt Rich!" It was a close race, undecided until last week; Jânio's margin was a mere 18,304 votes out of nearly 2,000,000 cast. Promised...