Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minds, notably that of Assistant FERAdministrator Lawrence Westbrook, there shortly sprang full-blown a scheme for transplanting Depression-broken Northwestern farm families wholesale to fertile Matanuska Valley. At a stroke the Government would wipe out all their pasts of failure and despair, give them everything they needed for a clean new start in life...
...colony for freed Negro slaves from the U. S., has a Government with a President, a Senate, a House of Representatives and all other U. S. fixings. U. S. honor cannot afford to let the British from Sierra Leone or the French from the Ivory Coast step in and clean...
...clean through, Signor Mussolini ordered instantly expelled from Italy the Tribune's Rome correspondent of seven-and-a-half years, David Darrah. He was hustled onto a train by Fascist police with only such money as he had in his pocket, Mrs. Darrah hastily rushing down from their home with a few necessaries in a suitcase. Snorted the Tribune's pugnacious publisher Col. Robert R. McCormick: "Send another man to Rome to replace Darrah? No, I don't think so. Why should I send a man there just to take Government handouts...
...Furthermore, as commercial bankers J. P. Morgan & Co. hold a good deal of Mitchell paper including, at last reports, mortgages on the three Mitchell homes. Certainly no one would be more glad than the House of Morgan to see Mr. Mitchell make a little money -so that he can clean up his loans. And it was by no means improbable, reasoned Wall Street last week, that the Morgan partners tossed a little work Mr. Mitchell's way whenever they justly could...
...impressed by Digger Howey that it hired him as city editor at four times his old salary. There he distinguished himself by ridding Chicago of a horde of quack doctors specializing in venereal disease. His strategy was to send out, as a prospective "patient," a reporter who had a clean bill of health from a reputable physician. In the reporter's pocket would be a savings bankbook showing a modest balance. The "patient" would tearfully confess to the quack that he was about to be married but had reason to suspect that he had been exposed to gonorrhea. With...