Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with him had carved Poland in two and threatened all the Balkans, where Italy has "vital interests." It was against every historical precedent for Italy to let Germany and Russia get away with the Balkans, but, on the other hand, if Germany knocked out Britain and France, Italy could clean up in the Mediterranean. Foxy Benito Mussolini took counsel with himself and at week's end delivered a speech that was a masterpiece of straddling, far removed from the blood-&-thunderousness of his speeches of the last four years...
...Barry very undiplomatically marries her. But Brenda is pledged to an exclusive spy ring, continues to be tapped by them even when she turns a cold but lovely shoulder. When her spy fiends (who all resemble Nazis) request her to snitch state secrets through her husband, Brenda makes a clean breast of things to Barry. Off he strides to tell the State Department about it and resign, then sets out with Brenda to track down her erstwhile employers...
Last week U. S. Attorney General Frank Murphy's clean-up man in Louisiana, Assistant Attorney General Oetje John Rogge, collared one of the Big Three. In New Orleans' Federal Court, slick, new-rich Seymour Weiss was convicted of using the mails to defraud, fined $2,000, sentenced to 30 months in prison. Convicted with him were Louisiana State University's ex-President James Monroe Smith, who must answer to 38 other charges and indictments; Dr. Smith's wife's nephew, John Emory Adams; and Louis C. LeSage, a previously suspended executive of Standard...
...claims to have been on more or less intimate terms with "almost every man of light and leading who has lived in the world during the past half-century," including British statesmen from Gladstone to Neville Chamberlain, 13 U. S. Presidents. Dr. Butler goes on to make a clean breast of his career as educator, publicist, kingmaker, counsellor to politicians...
Comedy of Ignorance. Bewildered was Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace. He knew that no pipsqueak hoarding could clean out the much greater involuntary hoards of farm commodities which he has long tried to dispose of. At week's end, after columnists and editorial writers had failed to shout down the buying rush, he slouched up to the microphone and over a nationwide network called a halt: "Since last Monday," he said, "housewives have been conducting runs on grocery stores in the same manner as depositors used to conduct runs on banks...