Word: dustpan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cardigan's catalogue said that annual tuition (including board) would be $1,100 -and be sure to bring "one dustpan, one mop, one broom." Cardigan wanted its students (sixth through ninth grade) to know that they would have to use their hands as well as their heads. There were other schools where the boys also had to make their own beds, wait on table, clean their rooms. But Cardigan's chores gave city kids a taste of the country. By last week, heading home for Christmas, Cardigan's 27 youngsters (aged eleven to 16) were old hands...
World War II found him a lieutenant general, commanding in Egypt. This side spot became a hot spot after the fall of France, and Wilson became the "broom" of Wa veil's famous "broom and dustpan" tactics of sweeping up the Italians. Later he handled the campaigns in Iraq and Syria with notable deftness, using small forces to head off the pressing danger of German penetration into the Middle East. In 1943 he held the Middle Eastern command, with the Ninth and Tenth Armies, the job from which he was ordered to Algiers and the overall Mediterranean command...
...biggest New Deal messes has been the housing program. The mess finally got so frightful that even Franklin Roosevelt, who can stand more clutter around him than most men, waved his arms and shouted for his chief housekeeper. Rotund little Judge Samuel Rosenman grabbed dustpan and broom and waded...
...Amazing Executive." With OEM's Wayne Coy holding the dustpan, Judge Rosenman went to work with his broom. In spite of the gestures of hydra-handed Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones (among many other things, administrator of housing loans), the Judge swept up the 16 Federal agencies. Mr. Roosevelt announced last week that the mess was cleaned...