Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thanked, the army in this country is loyal, and in no way engaged in politics. . . . I want my country to benefit later by more just electoral laws, by true parliamentarianism and real democracy. . . . But before this can be attained there must be a period of hard work. . . . We must clean up and reorganize the government, which may take a long time, but I thoroughly believe in our ultimate success. . . If I fail it will be I, and I personally, who am to blame, but with my people behind me I shall not fail...
...King wiped the slate clean and we rejoiced in the hope that this would open the way to a solution of our difficulties...
...Clean victory for Lawyer Longley was scored in the Mississippi anti-trust cases, when the Ford company was charged with price-fixing and monopoly...
Name of Committee. Since European papers are already talking about the "Young Committee" and the "Young Plan," reporters asked Mr. Young why he insisted on referring to the new aggregation as the "Second Dawes Committee." The issue seemed one of cloying modesty, but Mr. Young shot back an answer clean as a pistol bullet...
Vice President Charles Gates Dawes has recently said, in words equally clean cut, that the original "Dawes Plan" ought not to be so called, because it was drafted chiefly by Owen D. Young. Thus do great men honor truth and logic; but sentimental parents will continue to draw the sticky moral...