Word: cleanup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reported the General's aides: the "cleanup" had already started, camp conditions were already much improved...
...Cleanup Campaign. In Chicago, William F. Wells changed the name on his draft card to Laundry Age, thereafter tried to cash checks that were payable to a magazine of that name...
Police Record. Mayor Anton Cermak, who was trying to get Chicago's mildewed reputation scrubbed up for the World's Fair, clamored for a crime cleanup. But the police turned up little except neighborhood rumor: a man named Ted Marcinkiewicz had threatened to hold up Vera's speakeasy. By Dec. 22, when detectives went to see a thick-lipped, black-haired youth named Joe Majczek, the case seemed to be falling apart...
...Cleanup in the Rear. No one could take more satisfaction from this success than General Morshead himself. He had come to the Borneo command from the torturous, far from finished battle of New Guinea, one of the rear-area wars where the Aussies are still busy at the grim cleanup...
Cried Radio Pundit Raymond Gram Swing: "China is going through its worst scandal of the war. It is a gold scandal, and arises from insiders, with high Government connections, making a cleanup when the price of gold was officially raised on March 28. ... The gold involved . . . is part of the $500,000,000 this country loaned to China. . . . Fortunes have been made. . . . There is strong pressure on the Government ... by public opinion...