Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...started on his prison reform carrier which has brought him so much face. In that year he was made charman of the New York Commission on Prison Reform which made several investigations of the state penitentiaries in order to improve the living conditions in them. To gain an expert idea of the real state of the convicts quarters and habits. Mr. Osborne spent a week in the prison at Anburn as a convict...
...Osborne is the author of many widely read books on prisons and prison reform. The best of his writing include "Within Prison Walls," "The Adventures of a Green Dragon," and "Society and Prisons...
...become a commonplace occurrence anywhere in New York State in the near future. A bill has been introduced in the New York Legislature to make hypocrisy a crime. The author of the bill says he is aiming at proposers of blue laws. He would turn the scales upon the reform group and make them feel the hand of the law they have so often invoked...
During his quarter of a century in active Ministerial offices, he ever strained at effective reform of social, labor and industrial conditions. If his great measure, the Factory Bill, was subsequently passed by a Conservative Government (and that in itself was no mean compliment), his Old Age Pensions Act and his fight with the Lords which culminated in the Parliament Act of 1911 remain unique monuments to a life of splendid service to his country, for which he has at last consented to accept a high honor from the people through its cherished embodiment, the King...
...divided into three camps with widely differing opinions. First there are the Nationalists, who are the survivals of the bureaucrats and Junker class left over by the war. They want revenge and a return to military monarchy. Then on the left wing are the Socialists, who stand for reform legislation, labor laws, and international friendship. They correspond in their ideals to your Progressive party and are not at all Marxian in their beliefs. Last of all are the Republicans, the party of the Bourgeoisie, who usually support the Socialists...