Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have never tried it, but assassination in connection with reform movements must be disagreeable. However much a man wrongs me. I do not believe I should care to murder him, and carry off his property. Therefore there is a movement among the revolutionists for more agreeable methods. Lustead of rioting, reform is to be brought about by law. It is proposed in England that twenty-five per cent of all fortunes above a certain figure be confiscated for the benefit of the Government; and the English Government is greatly in need of assistance, because of bonuces to the unemployed, providing...
...forward at every favorable opportunity, why do so few college men go into politics? With city government at the low level it has reached in the last few years: Curleys, Hylans and Thompsons, replacing mayors like Mitchell, or Nathan Matthews, or Patrick Collins; it is evident that reform is necessary and that reform can only come by stirring up interest from the present inertia. This interest, in its turn, can be developed consistently only by strong leaders of intelligence with high ideals who will make a profession of politics. A powerful machine can only be defeated by another machine...
...Wisconsin, when drafting platforms for the Republican party, and seeing them rejected. Now he is startling Congress by his liberal progressive bloc, not the germ of a third party, for La Follette is too old a master to risk his neck on that horse again, but as a reform movement within the Republican party...
...colleges of today so bad after all or is it merely the spirit of reform? The answer depends on the answer to the other question: Why did I go to college? or why did I send my son there? If the latter be answered for a "Key" and some more "book learning", then no one need worry; both are still to be found for the seeking. But true scholars seem to be born not made; and a true scholar and a true grind, wholly different characters by the bye, are both usually impervious to anything but their books. The fault...
...delinquent in doing its share in the reform the I. R. T. has undertaken to abolish the insignificant loss of less than $3,000 which it sustains every month by installing slug detectors on its slot turnstiles. These hold each coin under a magnifying glass until the next is inserted; and thus one inspector can guard all the stiles at one station...