Word: clean-up
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...Austin High School kids were embryonic musicians who just couldn't wait for the shell to hatch. They incubated under the New Orleans jazzmen who had come up the river when their home grounds were ruled off limits by the clean-up element among Crescent City reformists...
...long ago as 1938 Tom Dewey pledged a clean-up of Albany's O'Connell machine. Last week, deftly timed before Election Day, Governor Dewey was making good. As part of his campaign to elect Republican Joe R. Hanley as Lieutenant Governor over Democrat Lieut. General William N. Haskell, Tom Dewey was investigating : 1) a $1,600,000 bookkeeping shortage in Albany's capital funds, 2) "wholesale and shocking violations of the election law," 3) Albany tax assessments, which for years have been rigged to favor O'Connell friends and punish O'Connell enemies...
...Wounds of the face should not be cut away too enthusiastically when being cleaned up. The clean-up process can be limited to obviously dead tissue because the face's "rich blood supply permits ready healing...
...remove some of the bleeding tissue. The convalescence was long and Tom had to go on relief. This hurt his pride-he had always managed to support his family. So Drs. Wolf & Wolff asked Tom to better his lot and do medicine a service by taking a job as clean-up man in their laboratory and serving as an experimental subject. Tom was worried and broke, but it took four months to persuade...
...gamy Memphis another clean-up campaign was in full swing, and as usual owl-eyed, benign Boss Ed Crump, 67, was the prime cudgel-wielder. This time he was after the cats. Memphis songbirds were in peril, said the boss, so cats must go. A "nice house cat" was all right, but tramps of either sex were out. Promptly cattraps began to appear in Memphis back yards, particularly those of county and city employes. County Commissioner Francis Andrews trapped three right...