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...Clean Up Widener! Two cents would keep a scrub woman scrubbing for an hour. Would you give two cents for cleanliness? Give till you're cleaned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Secret Society Enters Lists to Champion the "Goodies" and Cleanliness-Mysterious Midnight Aid Campaign Started | 1/18/1930 | See Source »

...night report seeing old men disguised as Dutch Cleanser Maids chasing dirt (they denied membership in the Watch and Ward Society) and stopping in their passing to affix these same posters in places of vantage. One of the nightly messengers, engaged in launching the midnight attack of the Harvard Scrub Woman's Protective Aid Society, when surprised in the let of setting up one of the organization's polices became agitated, and mounting a scrubbing brush rode rapidly away in all directions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Secret Society Enters Lists to Champion the "Goodies" and Cleanliness-Mysterious Midnight Aid Campaign Started | 1/18/1930 | See Source »

...transmitted a statement to the press which emphasized the spontaneous, intermittent, passing quality of the organization and denied sponsoring the delegation of women who appeared at Lehman Hall yesterday. They have not yet made an estimate as to the amount of relief they will be enabled to extend the scrub women as the Dutch Cleanser Collection Boxes had not been gathered when they made their statement. All efforts to discover the identify of the Board of Directors proved of little avail as there have been no resignations as yet. It has been learned, however that there are 13 members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Secret Society Enters Lists to Champion the "Goodies" and Cleanliness-Mysterious Midnight Aid Campaign Started | 1/18/1930 | See Source »

...latest and, as yet most flagrant case of the heartlessness of hundred million dollar corporation headed by a Lowell and with its Alumni Society headed by a Morgan towards those who do its dirty work is that reported in this morning's Post. "Twenty scrub-women in the Widener Library were discharged by virtue of no fault or complaint of their own, by Harvard College following advice from the State Minimum Wage Commission that their pay must be raised from 35 cents to 37 cents an hour making a total increase for the twenty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/17/1930 | See Source »

...Scrub Joke. When it is 6:55 a.m. at Gettysburg Academy in Pennsylvania, two short, swart Mexican youths tumble out of their beds and then proceed to make them. They agree with President Hoover that their father is the one and only President-Elect of Mexico. They are studious Guillermo Rubio, 18, and athletic Fernando...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: What's What | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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