Word: cleanups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hell hath no fury like a reformer caught in a saloon, even if he is only having a short beer. As President Truman's cleanup man, New York's dressy, blue-blooded Republican Newbold Morris has been having a terrible time with a similar embarrassment-a connection (TIME, March 17) with the Chinese tanker scandal. But when he sat down last week to be questioned by Senate investigators, he seemed determined to keep cool, smile, smile, smile, let superior reason (his) prevail, and thus sweep all before him. Result: he alternated between anger, self-pity, exaggerated politeness...
...Akillian, last year's cleanup hitter, and Ralph Robinson, who also saw service last spring, appear almost certain starters in left and right field, respectively, despite the fact that their coach would make no predications on this score yesterday...
...asked, "Has Vaughan been fired?" he replied, significantly, "Not yet." He was asked if he thought cabinet members who tolerated corruption should be fired. He answered: "What's so wonderful about a cabinet member?" He waxed sarcastic when someone wanted to know why Truman had ordered the cleanup drive. "Who," he intoned, "is to know whether the Angel Gabriel appeared to the President...
...press conference, when a reporter asked a question which might have brought a sharp reply, Truman managed to drop a homely colloquialism into his answer. Did the President have any comment on the House Judiciary subcommittee's refusal to grant immunity powers to Newbold Morris, his cleanup man? Truman replied that he thought Morris, to do a bangup job, should be able to promise cooperative key witnesses immunity from prosecution. The immunity was his own idea, he said, and there wasn't any bug under the chip (meaning concealed or secret, according to The American Thesaurus of Slang...
...cleanup job that Harry Truman promised for his malodorous federal house loomed as one of Augean scope when Judge Thomas Murphy backed away from it last December. The President seemed to have in mind a formidable probe and prosecution, a Democratic version of the Republicans' famed Teapot Dome inquiry. Last week the job turned out to be far less heroic in proportions. It called for a special assistant to the Attorney General, with powers only to investigate, leaving prosecution up to Attorney General Howard McGrath. After reportedly being refused by two other eminent lawyers (the late Robert Patterson...