Word: cleans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There are two great principles in the world. One is Christianity. Not just Christian doctrine, but the basic principles of right & wrong, of clean living, of kindness to one's neighbor. The other great principle has many names. Freedom, liberty or democracy-whatever called-its essence is the right and dignity of the individual. To achieve that principle has taken centuries of revolution and bloody battle. In Japan, this principle came so suddenly-and so quietly-that most observers fail to see the scope of the tremendous, bloodless revolution that has been wrought here since the start...
...broke through was an amateur's job of lath and inch-thick cement. Half-inch ventilation holes were drilled through another wall into a hallway. The only other opening was a hole six by eight inches in the chimney that formed one wall; it was covered with a clean white cloth. The windowless room had electric lights, three radios, no chair. At about three feet below the ceiling a shelf cut down the head room so that Makushak, who is 6 ft. 1 in., could barely stand erect. The floor was cluttered with odds & ends of junk, cans...
When Boston's William Filene's Sons Co. opened the first sale, the idea worked fine; 1,500 watches were sold in a day. But the plan made no friends among jewelers. Waltham tried to placate them by authorizing them to clean out their stocks of Walthams at half-price, too. But the jewelers still complained. The price-cutting was playing hob with their business just before graduation, normally their best watch-selling season...
There are some hopeful factors, however. The agreement of Democratic leaders to frame a bill which "the party could support" might pick up enough votes to pass the House and still re-legalize the closed shop, clean up the non-voting rules which now disenfranchise strikers in plant elections, and provide for legal machinery less abrupt, than the present injunctions rules. In the Senate, there is some hope of compromise between the Administration bill and a minority proposal drawn up this week by Senator Taft. In both Houses, though, labor forces will have to contend with stubborn opposition from Republicans...
...Annex will continue to use maids to clean halls, bathrooms, living rooms, and smoking rooms. Dormitory work chairmen will return early in the fall to get the plan started smoothly...