Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only one out of four Democrats who had voted for the Brown Derby in 1928 turned out to express a presidential preference, and of these only one in three still favored the man they had tried to put in the White House four years ago. Governor Roosevelt's clean sweep upped to 30 his total toward the magic number...
...March 1 the national Democracy had $140,489 cash in its treasury against debts of $786,116. Biggest item: $125,000 from the "sale" of the National Convention to Chicago. Also announced last week was the fact that the "victory drive" to clean up the 1928 deficit had netted $550,000 in cash and pledges from 45,817 Democrats...
...practically everyone expected, the House Naval Affairs Committee last week gave a clean bill of health to the U. S. S. Akron which it had investigated on charges of faulty construction (TIME, Feb. 8). Such flaws as had occurred were long ago corrected by Navy inspectors, the committee reported. As for the 18,000 lb. overweight, Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. had paid its penalty...
...setting the terminal of a great metropolis, affords him a part for which he is well suited. Doug starts the day with his pal as a well-bearded young vagrant recently released from "the jug". By discovering a travelling salesman's suitcase, which provides him with a clean suit and a "wad", he becomes a gentleman for a day. He meets Joan Blondell, a stage dancer (or chorus girl) who needs sixty dollars to reach her troupe in Salt Lake City and plays "Santa Claus for once in his life", unaware that Dr. Bernard, a fiendish old pervert in love...
...latter event to win by a two-foot margin in 5 minutes, 16 seconds. Wood won the intercollegiate 440-yard championship last spring with a time of 5 min., 4 sec. and if he swims in this event against Yale is likely to take first place. Yale made a clean sweep of the first a year...