Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia hates dirt and dust. He has spent 50 of his 72 years chasing it out of city streets. In the early 1900s Dr. Anders induced the Pennsylvania State Legislature to pass an antispitting law. He also forced the Philadelphia transit company to replace dirty plush streetcar seats with clean, bare benches. In 1919, during a local row over politics in the street-cleaning system, he raised a dust storm with his carpet-beating outburst: "Dust is pulverized poison and we have seen in Filthadelphia too much drifting into damned deferential silences...
...local associations in 60 lands, the "Y" is no longer exclusively evangelical or Christian; Jews may belong.* Most people now think of the Y. M. C. A. not as a religious organization but as a chain of semi-public young men's clubs, with gymnasiums and clean beds...
Wisconsin's students are fun-loving, friendly, athletic, many of them farm bred. Wisconsin's Clarence Addison Dykstra, 56, is serious, hardworking, cold, a political fencesitter. Arriving at Wisconsin two years ago to clean up after Glenn Frank, who had a feud with Governor Phil La Follette, Dykstra pacified the faculty in the same efficient way as he had handled Cincinnati's flood as its City Manager, but he has so far kindled no fire among faculty or students. Frank Porter Graham, 52, is called "Mr. Frank" by his students at the University of North Carolina. Generally...
Across the George Washington Bridge in New Jersey, sitting high and cinematic on the Palisades, is Ben Marden's ornate million-dollar Riviera. Its show, gaudy and gay but clean as one of Beau Brummell's neckcloths, has routine ballet and crooning, a panting jitterbug fest, Comic Joe Lewis, who-after rusticating most of the evening-goes to town at the end, and Mary Raye and Naldi, whose beautiful dancing steals the show...
...nighter over NBC-Blue which dramatizes true-life hair raisers. Last week one scheduled tale-teller was ex-Convicf Pat Reed, a counterfeiter who finished his five-year stretch in Alcatraz last October. Pat Reed was to say: 1) that Convicts Ralph Roe and Theodore Cole had made a clean getaway from Alcatraz in 1937, had not drowned, as the G-men reported; and 2) that a mass escape is now being planned, involving the seizure of a strategic control tower...