Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...competent job. Joseph Cotten as the Hollywood style congressman no paunch and Charles Bickford as a highly fictional butler, contribute to the general rewarding effect. Honors for the evening, however, must go to Ethel Barrymore who, in the role of the political matriarch, gives the impression that she could clean up Boston polities or reform the Republican party without breaking into much of a sweat...
...poison gases would be released. Planeloads of Plasma. An emergency hospital was set up in the City Hall as the Red Cross, Salvation Army, doctors, nurses, Texas Rangers with pearl-handled revolvers, planeloads of plasma and mobile kitchens began to arrive. The windowless high school gymnasium was swept clean-it would do for a morgue while the embalmers worked for hours, foot-deep in blood in the McGar garage. Now & again, they turned their backs on the corpses and slugged down hot coffee...
Murray, 42, an ex-Detroit reporter of Scotch-Irish-English-Dutch descent, was swept into his unpaid office in 1941 on a clean-out-the-Reds ticket. During the war, when few unions changed their leadership, there were only muffled rumblings of dissent, chiefly from left-wingers. But this year, with Murray coming up for renomination or rejection in June, volley and thunder have come at him from right as well as left...
...Greek Government itself, suddenly saved from ruin, was getting cocky. It liked U.S. assistance, but not the proposed U.S. supervision of that assistance. The crux was a U.S. plan to clean the Augean stable of Greece's economy, and, specifically, the U.S.'s intention to control what kind of goods the notoriously inefficient Greek Government ought to buy with the U.S. loan. Premier Demetrios Maximos and Foreign Minister Constantin Tsaldaris, in an interview with the New York Times, pointedly expressed their hope that the U.S. would restrict itself to an "advisory" role. In the past, the Government...
...machinelike way of operating enables him to get through an enormous amount of work in jigtime. In addition to bossing United, he is a director in three non-aviation companies. Yet his desk in his blue-green, semi-paneled office, across from Chicago's Municipal Airport, is usually clean of work. Sometimes he dictates for hours. He does it methodically, seldom fumbling for a word. He used to lunch at his desk, but an attack of stomach ulcers cured him of that. (The ulcers are also cured now.) As a result, he is a careful eater, but smokes...