Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...positive side, there is to be a complete political reform, with the ideal of a democratic form of government. The masses are to be educated, and trained for their new citizenship. A livelihood is to be offered the people. There is to be a strong national police, and an army and navy which will hold the respect of the world...
President Hopkins own college refused to give his plan a try out and other Eastern colleges, though lending a polite ear, also declined to commit themselves. It has thus remained for the pioneer West to assume the burden of reform. Michigan, press reports state, will put the system into effect only gradually, and is evidently receiving little encouragement from the other Western colleges...
...Lawes has long been warden at Sing Sing, where his enlightened policy of leniency and prison reform has been largely responsible for raising the standards of justice in New York State...
...candidate, Harry A. Mackey, for mayor, over J. Hampton Moore, Independent G. 0. P. man. All other Vare candidates won, including onetime (1921-25) U. S. Solicitor General James M. Beck, now U. S. Representative-elect Beck. ... In Reading, the Socialist Party swept the board. Tax reform was the issue. It was the most notable uprising of the kind since Milwaukee went Socialist in 1910. Of some 26,000 votes cast, Socialist J. Henry Stump, running for mayor, and his colleagues, won nearly half. Democrats and Republicans divided the other half. Said Mayor-elect Stump: "We will strive to make...
...Bible class at Temple Israel, near Far Rockaway, L. I., last week began an organized study of the New Testament. "This is the first time," said Dr. Isaac Landman, rabbi of Temple Israel and editor of The American Hebrew, "that a class in the Bible school of a Reform congregation has ever been devoted to the exclusive teaching of the New Testament. The time has come when the New Testament should no longer be a closed book to the Jews...