Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus was established what newly elected President Homer Martin called "a democratic, autonomous, clean union." His inference was that the other part of the United Automobile Workers of America which in the recent split (TIME, Feb. 6) remained with C. I. 0. has none of these qualities, although it undoubtedly has a clear majority of organized autoworkers...
...News" has exposed the whole monstrous situation during past weeks in columns which, if placed end to end, would probably reach from Portland to Tallahassee. With the self mortifying zeal of Simon Stylites (since the News is in the middle of the corrupt business which it is trying to clean up) it has told of Yale's perverted passion for "campus prestige." Everyone, we are informed, dives into the rough-and-tumble for extra-curricular honors. No place at Yale for the lonely stag, the wall flower; every man has to make his "Y" in something or other. Studies...
...urging student councils and university newspapers to take up the cause the committee hopes "to wipe the national campuses clean." Attempts will be made immediately, according to Sachs to enlist State legislatures in the anti-syphilis drive. He urged the passage of laws requiring Wasserman tests before issuance of marriage licenses...
...expected jitterbug riots occurred on the opening day. Shaw's vocalist had to burrow to his microphone through the ecstatic exhibitionists swarming the stage. At the Paramount, a boy hurt himself jumping from a box. At the Shubert a girl swooned clean away...
...Garfield is convincing as a "tough" prize-fighter, but the picture is melodramatic and uninspired. Fleeing to Arizona to escape conviction for a murder of which he is innocent, the fighter meets the Dead End Kids, May Robson, and a blonde, who manage to revive the clean American spirit in him. Mr. Garfield's acting and the Kids' wisecracking do not prevent the picture from being overlong and overdone...