Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best suited for this job is Malcolm E. Nichols, '99. Although admitedly a politician, he is of the school which the city needs most in its present crisis. As a Republican he offers an end to the Democratic despotism that has prevailed for so many years. His associations are clean, and his political indebtedness is not such that he will be forced to fill municipal offices with the dregs of Boston...
...mayor from 1926 to 1930, he gained the technical knowledge indispensable to anyone whom the voters entrust with this measure of authority. His regime has seldom been called inspired, yet he emerged from office with clean hands, which in Boston may be regarded as somewhat phenomenal. If he returns he will find fewer dollars in the treasury and more mouths to be fed, but the judgement and sound practical sense which he has gained in many years of legal experience seem capable of regulating city expenditures with economy as well as humanity...
...vegetation of west central Texas agrees with the Angora goats who grow the best quality mohair and every bush and tree is nibbled clean as high as goat can reach. A huge fortune from Texas mohair was made by Charles Schreiner, a French immigrant who started as a merchant, turned to banking, prospered as a goat rancher when a 34? a Ib. tariff began keeping out Turkish and South African mohair. At one time he owned a goat ranch twice as large as Rhode Island. At his death a few years ago, Louis Schreiner -known to Texas goat herders...
This young man who is Foreign Minister of the Republic of Latvia has the clean-cut mien of an Arrow-Collar illustration. Latvia is just about as remote from Japan, geographically and in every other respect, as possible, and this fact in Geneva became important recently. The Dutch suddenly realized that their delegate was slated to be chairman of a League committee which must examine the aggressions of Japan, and, since The Netherlands East Indies are within easy striking distance of the Japanese Navy, the risk of heading such a committee was deemed too great for Queen Wilhelmina...
...when the Yankees got a run off the Giants' No. 1 pitcher, lanky, left-handed Carl Hubbell, in the first inning, and the Yankees' least-prepossessing pitcher, Irving ("Bump") Hadley, held the Giants scoreless. First indication of a Giant revival came when Hank Leiber knocked out a clean single in the second inning. Encouraged, Johnny McCarthy and Harry Banning singled in quick succession, which scored one run. Then Burgess Whitehead slapped a grounder that unluckily struck Danning as he was running from first to second, thus putting him out for being hit with a batted ball. Whitehead, however...