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When it was all over and the last of 30,000 egg rollers had departed in an April drizzle, the gardeners began a cleanup job that may take two weeks. Surveying the mess, Chief Gardener Robert Redmond was philosophic. After all, he said, "egg shell has a certain amount of lime...
...left state with the lowest reputation of any government organ. So it was with high hopes that we watched the installation of a new Secretary, and listened to his assurances of reform. But last week's amazing revelations of sabotage in the Voice of America division prove the "cleanup" in high places to be a hollow mockery...
...Trotsky Hated Us." Stalin rationalized the great purges of '37 and '38 to Budu as simply part of a moral cleanup. "The French Revolution collapsed because of the degeneration of the morals of its leaders, who surrounded themselves with loose women." Trotsky, he said, was "not corrupt . . . but he carries within himself another danger that a popular revolution can't tolerate: he's an individualist to his fingertips, a hater of the masses ... He hated us and he despised...
...black eye for Quirino and a bright new feather in cocky Mayor Lacson's cap. More important, the court's decision is a tonic for the thousands of Filipinos who applauded Lacson's cleanup campaign but who feared that corruption, in the courts as well as in the government, would quickly drag him down...
...John Roosevelt, youngest (36) son of F.D.R., hit the campaign trail for Eisenhower. His brother Elliott is also for Ike, but Brothers James and Franklin Jr. and their mother are for Stevenson. Said John: "I believe it's time for a cleanup, for new faces and new brains." ¶After a speech by Boss John L. Lewis (who has not publicly supported a presidential candidate since he broke with Franklin Roosevelt in 1940 and supported Willkie), the United Mine Workers' convention in Cincinnati whooped through a resolution endorsing Adlai Stevenson. The Mine Workers' $1.90-a-day wage...