Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Tammany legislators at Albany, he was not prepared to be stopped in his bold career by a high-minded Governor. As everyone knows, Democrat Herbert Henry Lehman is the great and good friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Very sick (appendectomy) last autumn when Mayor LaGuardia won the first reform vic tory in New York City in 20 years, mild-mannered Governor Lehman was dutifully on deck last week for the opening of his Legislature. A question affecting the governing laws of New York City (pop. 7,000,000) is always the most important question in New York State...
...Hamlet: O, reform it (the play) altogether. And let those that play your glowns speak no more than is set down for them: for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some barren quantity of spectators to laugh too; though, in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses...
...million a year, her celebrated zoo and outdoor opera, her beer, her famed families of Longworths and Tafts. Prouder still was she last week. Cincinnati had done for the fifth time what no other U. S. city of comparable size (452.000 pop.) had done twice in succession-reinaugurated a reform municipal government. And Cincinnati was that almost equally rare big town which closed its books Dec. 31, 1933 without a deficit...
Clevelanders who had impulsively planted the seeds of Reform and had then left the fruit to be choked by the weeds of oldtime political organization, Philadelphians who had just succeeded in throwing a small monkey-wrench into the long-lived Vare machine, New Yorkers who were putting their second Fusion government in 20 years into the City Hall, could benefit by looking to well-governed Cincinnati for a lesson. The lesson was fresh from the presses in highly readable book form, City Management: The Cincinnati Experiment - by a bright young man who had associated himself with the movement from...
...taxpayers. And Cincinnati began retiring its debt at the rate of $850,000 a year. More slowly, the social service and police departments were peeled of their incompetence and corruption. In the surrounding county, where Author Taft was elected attorney in 1926, only to lose in 1928, reform came harder, but the county can now hold its head almost as high as Cincinnati. Can the movement last? Author Taft thinks so, although he admits that an incorrupt government steps on many toes, recalls a prominent manufacturer who has left the Charter group because he could not get a $2 parking...