Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress fallen into parsimonious times. Coolidge, the economical, reigns over the flowing waters and rich lands of our country. Congress is bidden reform itself. A sign of this is a new form of Public Buildings Bill...
...Osborne's career has been devoted to a struggle for reform in various fields' of human activity, crowned by his successful battle with the reactionary prison administrators which had formerly possessed complete control over most prisons in the United States...
...which published the "Auburn Citizen". From this field of activity he was quickly drawn into politics. After a defeat in 1898 as an independent candidate for the Lieutenant Governorship of New York State, he was elected Mayor of Auburn in 1903. He gave the city an administration marked by reform and progressive action on various problems of municipal government...
...until later in life that Mr. Osborne became actively interested in the problems of prison reform. In 1913 he was appointed chairman of the New York Commission on Prison Reform, which went into a thorough investigation of conditions then prevailing in New York state prisons and elsewhere throughout the country. During this investigation Mr. Osborne spent a week in the Auburn prison as a convict. His report which he issued after his experiences there gained, him nation wide prominence for the first time, and soon after he was appointed Warden of Sing Sing Prison...
...perjury and neglect of duty", just the things he had tried to wipe out at Sing Sing. Indignation was aroused throughout the country, however, and the judge dismissed the indictment without even bothering to hear the defendant's plea He finally resigned in October, 1916 after completing his reform at Sing Sing