Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before departing for fun on the deep. President Roosevelt last week made a clean sweep of "must" jobs. Day by day he gradually waded through the big legacy of bills left by Congress. In his favorite frank way he announced that would resort to no sly pocket vetoes. Instead he wrote upon 31 private bills: "disapproved and signature withheld, Franklin D. Roosevelt."* Two important measures he did sign: the Farm Bankruptcy Act and the Railroad Retirement Act, which, in future, will cost the railroads some $60,000,000 per year to pension off their 65-year-oldsters...
...ruin the Premier and besmirch Alberta's United Farmers Party in the person of its chief. But last week the Press had eyes chiefly for the plaintiff, beauteous, blonde Miss Vivian MacMillan who is exactly the type Hollywood likes to cast for stardom in courtroom dramas of clean women and dirty politics...
...made chairman of the board of directors, succeeding the late Robert J. Graham. Onetime official of General Electric Co.. now president of Chicago's Speedway Manufacturing Co.. Chairman Knowlson went on Stewart-Warner's board of directors after the com pany was forced to clean house by the accusations of its fourth largest stockholder and most famed inventor, Oscar Ulysses Zerk (TIME, March...
Secretary of State Cordell Hull made a strong start but he lacked staying power. Thundering down the home stretch of 1934's Open Kudos Championship last week, a professional breasted the tape a clean winner. He was Harvard's lean, long-legged, new President James Bryant Conant, recipient this season of seven honorary degrees. Two strides behind was Amateur Hull, with five degrees. A brilliant finishing sprint put Tyler Dennett, president-elect of Williams, in a triple tie for third place with Secretary of the Interior Harold LeClair Ickes and Princeton's new President Harold Wrillis Dodds...
Thus, unlike other speculators, he came through with clean skirts. Moreover he did his friend Wilson able service as head of the War Industries Board and, never petty, gave freely of his economic advice when succeeding Republican Presidents asked it. His free advice is still available when Franklin Roosevelt wishes it, but that is not often now, for Baruch opposed abandoning the gold standard ("Make no mistake about it: abandoning the gold standard is cheating."); opposes huge public expenditures ; favors a budget balanced more than in a bookkeeping sense...