Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these bums and these criminals and everything else throughout your career practically. Are you going to continue to do that if you are elected president of the international?" Hoffa cleared his throat. "I intend to conduct myself in keeping with respectability when I become president," he said. To clean up the mess, observed Chairman McClellan, peering over the rims of his glasses, "you will have to make a decided change in Hoffa...
...will take more than talk, though, to get Pete Rademacher back in the ring with Patterson. This time it took a $250,000 guarantee put up by Pete's employer, an amorphous corporation named Youth Unlimited, Inc. founded in Columbus, Ga., for the avowed purpose of promoting clean-cut professional athletes who will be a credit to sport. For their money, Pete's backers promoted themselves little more than a trip to the Northwest. Their share of the gate was less than half of what they spent, and there are rumors that Patterson's manager...
...killed the move. In the end Hickey discovered that Hoffa had sneaked Teamster charters through to Dio anyway. Announced Hickey: he will run for the international presidency against Hoffa late next month. Asked John McClellan: "If you should be elected, would you use all power vested in you to clean out this organization?" Replied Tom Hickey firmly: "I would dedicate myself to that ambition...
President made his own "New Life Movement" sound like nothing so much as a South Seas version of Red China's "rectification" campaign. "Our nation, building itself anew, needs the support of a mental revolution," declared Sukarno. "Mentally we must be completely rejuvenated-washed clean...
...which Neapolitans thought was reserved for strangers. Naples was shocked to the core last week to hear that Neapolitans had been doing something like this to each other-and in city hall, at that. On a muggy 99° evening, thousands swarmed about the 700-year-old hall shouting, "Clean up the mess!" Cops broke it up by arresting 30 of the demonstrators. Inside, Mayor Achille Lauro, millionaire shipowner and leader of the Popular Monarchist Party, insisted, "Our hands are clean, because we don't have to soil ourselves by stealing public money." No one accused Lauro of pocketing...