Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...infamous suggestion!" The little Virginian was now mad clean through. '"And I don't say that under the shelter of constitutional immunity, either. You have suggested that I interpolated the word 'laughter' in the Record...
...against hard times. It had passed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, a vast experiment in Federal development of natural resources. The Emergency Railroad Act had provided Federal direction for a program to end wasteful duplication of services among the nation's carriers. The Securities bill was designed to clean up the evils of stock jobbery. The national banking structure had been reformed by the Glass-Steagall bill...
...University of California, fortnight ago announced a project the nature of which would cause an ethical shudder if proposed in the East. The Big C will appoint a fulltime representative to canvass secondary and high schools for young athletes and tell them about California "as a place of clean athletics combined with sound scholastic standards." The Big C man will be paid a salary. The Big C asks friends to help. Funds will be audited, kept out of the hands of athletes. Needy men may be helped to get jobs, "but only bona fide jobs...
...back taxes had accumulated, the stockholders, including Architect Benjamin Marshall (of both the Blackstone and Drake), Vincent Bendix and the McCormick estate, put through a voluntary reorganization. Metropolitan Life extended its $4,000,000 mortgage and $180,000 in defaulted interest and loaned the hotel enough to clean up the taxes. As their contribution the Brothers Drake tore up their old contract calling for a cut in the profits, took instead a new one providing for $15,000 each for their services in an "administrative and advisory" capacity, living expenses including nine rooms each and the right to entertain...
Heart of that measure was the provision whereby the President was empowered to license interstate industries and thus club recalcitrant minorities into good behavior on pain of putting them out of business altogether. On motion of Senator McAdoo the Finance Committee cut the heart clean out of the bill. The vote was 12-to-7, with Utah's King, Texas' Connally, Oklahoma's Gore, North Carolina's Bailey, Virginia's Byrd, Missouri's Clark, Democrats all, deserting their President. Final elimination of the license system would leave the Government powerless to enforce its industrial...