Word: cleanups
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...good thing, and they meant to keep it. When church groups organized against them, the bosses simply bought themselves a quorum of elders. When good citizens tried to fight them at the polls, the bosses bought votes at $10 a head and put in a puppet government. Members of cleanup committees were subjected to a campaign of nuisance arrests and tire slashings. Two were badly beaten up, on a downtown street and in broad daylight, by hired bullies. In June 1954 Lawyer Albert Patterson, who had won nomination as Attorney General of Alabama on a cleanup ticket, was shot...
Coming to the presidency on a wave of national reaction against the free-spending glitter of the Miguel Aleman regime, Ruiz Cortines had recognized the need for a cleanup. He first weeded out corrupt officials, then went after the root causes of corruption: inadequate official pay and bureaucratic inefficiency. After devaluating the currency, he clamped on price controls, still spends several hours a week personally checking them...
...cluster of reporters stood behind the big off-white barn one afternoon last week and watched while Irvington Roamiss Pear, a purebred Holstein heifer, got a thorough grooming. While they were watching the ceremonious cleanup, a hired man-or what most of the reporters at first took to be a hired man-ambled up to see what was going on. He was dressed in blue slacks, a blue denim sports shirt, white rubber-soled shoes, and a floppy Panama straw hat with its brim set at a rakish angle. In a quick doubletake, the reporters recognized the nation...
Locker-Room Tears. In the infield, ham-handed First Baseman Walt Dropo, an adequate fielder, is hitting well enough to hold down the cleanup slot. Second Baseman Nellie Fox, a consistent .300 hitter, has picked up new tricks in the infield, e.g., learned to go to his right for ground balls, under Marion's coaching. Shortstop Chico Carrasquel, not hitting up to par, is still one of the best in the business. Third Baseman George Kell, healthy again after a knee operation last winter, is the old pro who saves the game with a stop...
...Center, built with funds raised by turkey raffles and square dances. Men waited across the street in Eddie Taylor's pool hall. The women sang School Days, put on skits, served coffee and cup cakes and eyed Aileen's presents. The shower broke up early, and the cleanup committee put off dishwashing until the next day; only a dozen women were still there when suddenly the lights went out. Then they heard the noise. Someone said: "It's a freight train." Another voice spoke up soberly: "It's a wind acomin'." Then the building collapsed...