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...Vancouver's new-broom mayor, rambunctious Gerry McGeer had started his sweeping by firing 23 policemen for letting gambling dens and brothels run wide open. Last week, as chairman of the city's Police Commission, he sat in judgment on their appeals. Vancouverites were shaken by the unorthodox McGeer way of running a hearing: he paid no attention to traditional rules of evidence banning hearsay, opinion or conjecture. But they were fascinated by the dirt this method dredged up, particularly from a stocky gambler named Louis Tisman...
...Workshop had to resort to "hiring a hall" after the University had decided to dump 400 folding chairs in the very spot where "Saint Joan" was taking shape After searching every nearby broom closet for free space, the group finally brought its wigs and grease paint to the Somerset...
...Broom. Knowing this, McCloy refused the presidency when it was first offered to him in December. But he dished out a blunt appraisal of the Bank's faults. McCloy's bluntness won such favor that Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder offered him the job again-on his own terms...
...first 100% layman ever to head the Federal Council of Churches (TIME, Dec. 16), Cincinnati Lawyer Charles P. Taft, looked like a fine new broom-and the cluttered house of U. S. Protestantism is thick with ancient ecclesiastical dust. The situation suggested a lot of house-cleaning ideas to sharp-tongued Magazine Writer Stanley High. Wrote angry Presbyterian High in this week's Christian Century...
...Advocate's first purchase was a broom," he said. "Our first source of income came from the sale of empty beer bottles. We're getting along, though...