Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year-old plan was brought to light, brushed off, adopted as their brain child. A committee of 250 citizens, men and women, no one of whom may have any connection with the theatrical business or with any reform movement, committee or organization, will be selected. From this group juries of twelve must stand ready to be called. Complaints, according to the ruling, must be received directly by the City Commissioner of Licenses. Complaints through the Society for the Suppression of Vice will not be considered, because the Society insists on withholding the identity of its communicants. When a sufficient quantity...
Just why New Yorkers have failed to recognize this place of satire on fanatic reform as such is a mystery. With one exception they seem to have been taken in. The sole septic states with utmost gravity that he cannot and the address, of "Mr. Fillmore's" society in the directory. In all other cases this modern Dean Swin is denounced to the high heavens. In one case a fervid Manhattanite, evidently having the recent elections a bit heavy on his mind, seems to dread that "Mr. Fillmore", intends to enter politics on the platform of "The coffee-house must...
...plurality of 7,000 votes, Edward W. Quinn, Democrat, was re-elected mayor of Cambridge for his fifth consecutive term after a heated six weeks campaign against Godfrey. S. Cabot '82, the Republican reform candidate...
Lady Astor is beginning to be known as the " nuisance of British politics". Last week the National Unionist Conference passed a resolution asking the Government to proceed immediately with the reform of the House of Lords. During debate Lady Astor voiced her approval of the measure and added that " one of the things the country was 'up against' was that so many members of the House of Lords thought that they had an hereditary right to legislate." Loud cries of " no" from many delegates greeted her speech...
...quickly be forgotten. They will realize suddenly that we are no longer bound by the ordinary inhibitions and fears: it is simply that Yale doesn't care. The virility of the thing, the inherent mauliness will take them unawares. When the system is really established every sort of reform may be aided by it. If an undergraduate is put on probation he will need only to buy a pennant saying "Nasty Old Dean," or some such other particularly aggravating and biting phonic. Then there will be an end to paternalism. The Yale News...