Word: cleanup
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Oxford only picked up as points. The Britishers seemed to a displaying a less serious altitude on to whole. The flippancy of their cleanup man. The Right Bon. Earl of Asquith, and the general inability of their number three, identified as John Irwins, a former Princetonian, proved particularly costly...
...obliged to investigate charges of graft and corruption against Tammany's dapper, wisecracking mayor, Jimmy Walker. When the hearing got too hot, Jimmy Walker resigned. Automatically Joseph V. McKee, president of the city's Board of Aldermen succeeded to the job and made motions of starting a cleanup. Then & there the current overlord of Tammany, Boss John Curry, made a mistake. Instead of nominating McKee for a special election to fill Walker's place, he chose a Tammany wheelhorse, Surrogate Judge John P. O'Brien, and maneuvered McKee off the ballot. O'Brien was elected...
...Lawyer Liebowitz ran for district attorney in Brooklyn, promising a vice cleanup. He was defeated by some 60,000 votes. Such causes as the Scottsboro trials, if of no elective advantage, may crown the Liebowitz career with a judgeship. As for the clients his talents have freed, not all have lived to praise him. Liebowitz sent "Mad Dog" Coll back into the streets. Brother gangsters wiped him out within a week. Convict Max Becker, missing the electric chair for the prison guard's murder, went back to face prison guards who did not forget. The electric chair burns...
Although the Cornell nine is batting only .218 as a team, shortstop Walt Johnson is hitting at a .357 clip followed by Captain Rudy Doering, third baseman and cleanup hitter, with an average...
...mark, the Indians are batting over .400 as a team. Georgie Hanna, pintsized Sophomore leadoff man, who is playing left field, is leading the hitters with ten hits in nineteen trips to the plate for an average of .526. Right behind him is Eddle Casey, center fielder and cleanup man, with ten hits in twenty times at bat for a .500 average, while Hal Longley, right-fielder, rounds out the heavy hitting outfield with a mark of .467. Sophomores Bud McLaughlin, second baseman, and Jee Urban, catcher, both boast a .444 average...