Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indicated that a prohibition legally impossible when disguised was legally possible when it was made explicit. The practical difference between the prohibition of liquor and the prohibition of child labor is also clear. The first is a sumptuary law, with evanescent popular support, the second is an obvious social reform, which commands and should continue to command the allegiance of the American community...
...opportunity for law that is "a kind of social engineering," the present child labor movement presents it to the Roosevelt administration. The breakdown of state and local government in the United States is only the last of a long series of reasons for the relegation of child labor reform to Washington. Under these circumstances, it is difficult to appreciate the force of Mr. Smith's objections, and it is difficult to see how his poor substitute for the proposed law can claim the advantages of smooth passage and enforceability, since the card he suggests has already been played, and returned...
...Harold Laski has pointed out that the chief significance of Mr. Roosevelt's administration is that it represents the first great attempt to achieve fundamental social reform with parliamentary methods. Since Mr. Harold Laski has already said that fundamental social reform could not be accomplished by parliamentary methods, because "fundamental social reform" means public ownership, he obviously regards the attempt as part of the pathology of political science. After one year of churning and fuming, and after Mr. Johnson's conference, the measurable results are only these, that the administration has built up a large and unsanctioned machinery...
...Flynn backed a "Recovery" ticket. They were beaten but defeat did not dampen their ambitions. Tammany was also licked and they saw a chance to seize the city's Democratic machine from Tammany's slipping grasp. Once in a generation a revulsion of feeling elects a Fusion-Reform Administration, but between times, year after year, the local Democratic machine rules the city. To the ambitions of Bosses Farley and Flynn Mayor LaGuardia's plan for revamping the city government was as great a danger as it was to Tammany. So the votes of their henchmen killed...
...listed in Chicago telephone directories. What did Mr. O'Brien think of the Exchange Bill? 'I'm heartily in favor of it," rumbled Mr. O'Brien. "I do not view the margin requirements as excessive. . . . I believe the stock business is in need of much reform. . . . I wish to see wild speculation barred forever." The Tribune duly recorded these views along with objections by other Chicagoans. The Chicago Evening American headlined: HEAD OF STOCK EXCHANGE FOR FEDERAL CURB. Not until next day did the Tribune learn that it had quoted the wrong Michael...