Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concert was one day given at a children's prison. The next day astonished parents who had abandoned all hope of reform received penitent and regretful letters from their wayward offspring who promised rigid goodness for the future. The band was rushed to a grown-up prison, and soon the embittered "lifers" were shedding tears and promising to turn over a new leaf...
Against Gladstonian reforms she raged as follows in a letter to Lord Granville, Gladstone's Foreign Secretary: "The Queen herself can never have any confidence in the men who encourage reform for the sake of alteration and pulling down what exists. . . . A democratic monarchy she will not consent to belong to . . . Others must be found if that...
...first speaker will be Moorfield Storey '66, a well known Boston Lawyer, scheduled to appear next Tuesday at 4 o'clock in the Faculty Room of the Union. Mr. Storey was president of the American Bar Association for many years and has written several books on legal subjects. "The Reform of Legal Procedure" and "The Conquest of the Philippines", are two of his best known works. He is expected to discuss either the Phillipines, dealing especially with their independence, or the Pan-American policy of the United States. The latter topic has been given a great deal of prominence during...
...these reforms save money for the taxpayers of Illinois. And all of them--since the business of reforming State governments had made such little headway be 1917 that any reform was notable and Lowden's reforms were sensational--brought Lowden fame. It is not strange that the Republican party, then preparing to break the eight years hold of the Democrats in Washington, should have begun to talk of Lowden. Nor it it strange that Lowden's own friends in Illinois should have thought the times auspicious. On November 7, 1919, an enthusiastic convention of Republican editors of Illinois meeting...
...integrity of official action is publicity. This does not mean an espionage of all personal and private actions of Government officials, but it does mean publicity concerning the discharge of the duties which they have been chosen to perform. . . . Publicity is not only the main agency of reform, it is likewise the main agency of prevention...