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Roosevelt set ambitious goals: to make merit replace bribery in the system of job assignments (sergeants sometimes paid $15,000 for lucrative captaincies) and, crazy as it sounds, to compel officers to actually enforce all the laws. He scored a few successes initially, weeding out corrupt veterans. To see whether patrolmen were walking their beats, he began making the same rounds late at night and incognito--though at times in the company of a newspaper reporter. Once, Roosevelt found three bluecoats loitering outside a saloon at 2:30 a.m. "What are you men doing here?" he asked abruptly. "What...
...idea of economies of scale. Wisconsin Senator Robert La Follette and William Jennings Bryan, the perennial standard bearer for the common man, might have wanted to dismantle everything bigger than a hardware store. What Roosevelt wanted was simply to regulate the big outfits. For starters, he wanted to compel them to open their books. Quarterly reporting in the corporate world was still a novelty and always voluntary. He wanted the government to see into companies' workings so it could judge which combinations were tolerable and which were illegal restraints of trade. "We draw the line against misconduct," he said...
...endorsed these reforms and await their immediate implementation.The proposals of the Education Policy Committee and the Committee on a January Term, on the other hand, we view with some skepticism. Instead of rewarding students for the breadth of their interests, the creation of secondary fields is more likely to compel students down the path of credentialism. The second key reform of the Education Policy Committee was to delay concentration choice until the end of the first semester of sophomore year. But this would be inherently disadvantageous to concentrations in the sciences, especially engineering—and would not have served...
...spokesman James E. Aisner ’68 explained the decision to accept Gottesman, even though he is not a college graduate, by telling The Economist that “extraordinary circumstances will sometimes compel it to drop [its] rule” of only admitting students who hold bachelor's degrees...
...once it had decided to turn its back on the world, all the Ming dynasty's magnificent technology was not enough to compel a change of mind...