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Georgi Dimitroff, Communist Party boss, was taking no chances. The Peace Treaty would limit the Bulgarian Army; the remnant must be men the Communists could count on. "Unreliable" civil officials were being swept out of office with what Dimitroff briskly called "the iron broom." In preparation was a National Education Bill containing a codicil about the political, beliefs of professors and students. Next would come a constitutional assembly from which Agrarian leaders feared they would be excluded...
Conibear read up on physics and experimented at night in his living room with a broom for an oar. He decided that the traditional Oxford style, in which oarsmen put their maximum power at the end of a long layback stroke, was not only unsound but uncomfortable. He taught a short stroke with a "sock" as the blade entered the water; the men were sitting upright at the end of the stroke, and ready for a quick recovery. In 1917, Hiram Conibear was killed (when he fell out of a cherry tree) but Washington crews went east year after year...
...Rome loved him and laughed at him. He received exalted personages with his clothes turned inside out. He danced alone through the streets with his beard half shaved off, or strutted about carrying a huge bunch of broom which he pretended to sniff delightedly. Sometimes, in token of his humility, he would appear in public with a large blue cushion perched upon his head...
...Supreme Court decision that states must either admit Negroes to state universities, or appropriate money for an accredited university for Negroes. Texas promptly changed the name of its Negro Prairie View College to Prairie View University and doubled its appropriations. A Negro can study blacksmithing, laundering and broom-making at Prairie View-but not law, medicine or engineering...
...Hands. With his new broom, Young Henry brought in other new ideas. Shrewd enough to realize that there was a lot about automaking that he did not know, he set up a policy committee to supply him with the answers. On the cornmittee are: Labor-Relations Expert John Bugas, onetime director of the FBI's Detroit office and now the company's No. 2 policymaker; black-haired, gruff Mead L. Bricker, the production boss who "saved" Willow Run; John R. Davis, the cheerful, shrewd boss of sales and advertising; pint-sized R. H. McCarroll, now executive engineer...