Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ballots were counted, Walter Reuther had complete control of the giant union. Reutherites dominated the U.A.W. executive board by an overwhelming 18-to-4 majority. Most important of all, Reuther's three strongest enemies - Secretary-Treasurer Addes, Vice Presidents "Tommy" Thomas and Richard T. Leonard-were booted clean out of office...
...Freshman eleven made it a clean gridiron sweep Saturday. Taking charge of the situation from the opening kickoff, the Yardlings slithered their way through what had been an undefeated Brown Cub squad on the muddy Soldiers Field practice lot and sent the Bruins back to Providence at the wrong and of a 20 to 6 score...
...Last August he collapsed from tuberculosis. In his diary the dying judge wrote: "The Food Control Law is a bad law, but as long as it is law the people must obey it. ... There are judges I know who buy on the black market pretending that their hands are clean. When I consider that I am alone in marching on death with a clean slate, I forget all my troubles and sorrows." Last month he died...
Rejects. In Pittsburgh, Ronald L. Hale escaped an auto smash-up with slight injuries, one embarrassment: he was knocked right out of his pants. In Jerome, Idaho, David Detweiler, in an accidental brush with a potato-digging machine, suffered no injury at all but was picked clean of everything but his shoes & socks...
Said a woman Communist: "That woman has dirtied the clean name of Communism. Yes, she is well built-her figure is in better shape than her morality...