Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hottest defense of all came from the nation's Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins in Washington. Newshawks who trooped into his office to twit him about boondoggles and ancient safety pins were quickly sobered. He was mad clean through. "Investigate?" barked he. "No! There's nothing the matter. Those are good projects, all of them. People who don't understand foreign languages sometimes laugh when they hear them. Dumb people make fun of things they can't understand...
...newspapers could have published the same report without hurting the Governor's increasingly delicate feelings is as inexplicable as what use wealthy Governor Curley could have for a more $500,000. It certainly cannot be on account of The Boston Herald's uncompromising Republicanism or its endless battle for clean politics in the Commonwealth. Such spite is far beneath the Governor of Massachusetts, especially a man of such a sensitive nature...
...Stresa," remarked Benito Mussolini one day last week, pausing an instant as he dictated Fascist orders of the day. "Get Stresa ready for a conference on April 11. Veneer the railway station with marble. Repave the principal streets. Clean up everything-the usual precautions. And don't spend more than 2,000,000 lire...
High on the list of things the New Deal proposed to do soon after March 4, 1933 was a vigorous clean-up of the food and drug industry. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt became an ardent advocate for a sterner and stricter law than the relic of 1906. In the Department of Agriculture Brain Truster Rexford Guy Tugwell drafted such a stringent bill to revamp the old Federal Food & Drugs Act that manufacturers who stock the shelves of drug stores and groceries were thrown into a political panic. Hearings were held at the Capitol and self-righteous witnesses on both sides...
...recipe for enjoying Hell: "The first thing is to boil your black cat. You get your pot and go into the woods. Just as you get ready to boil your cat, a wind will come through the woods and bow down the limbs of trees and sweep the ground clean for a place for the pot. After you boil the black cat, you pull the bones, every one of them, between your teeth. But first the wind blows and sweeps the ground clean around the bones. Then you walk to a signboard for nine straight mornings. Each time you walk...