Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voting machines could not be used. But eliminating crackpots and perennial political protestants, the race for the nation's third most potent elective job was to be run by three men. Tammany's chances of victory had never been slimmer, for against it were arrayed not one reform candidate, but two. One was the most aggressive figure in the city's political life. The other enjoyed the patronage of the White House. Joseph Vincent McKee was the last of the major candidates to have his name entered on the ballots. Twelve men staggered into the Board...
...Democratic, failed to return him to Congress. He likes to mix salads, play the trombone and will fight at the drop of a hat. Making four speeches to McKee's one, he did not let his opponent's charges go long unnoticed. He, too, had pledged charter reforms and at the Harvard Club had impressed many of his conservative listeners, to whom his past radicalism was the cause of grave suspicion, with a plan to refinance the city's indebtedness at lower interest rates. He now stepped up to a microphone, radioed a paragraph-by-paragraph critique...
...significance of the change, if made, will be great. It will not be simply a reform which all agree should be made; it will be one of the key steps toward building up a university in which the student is no longer an individual at the mercy of academic red-tape, but one who is recognized as being able to look after himself...
...told that in the dark days of our republic, when irate heaven scorned the frontiersman and his libations, a very wicked gargoyle named the spoils system flourished in the land. Ah, alien--when he departed, and the curtains parted, there was Pendleton, kicking the gong around, and civil service reform was born full fledged into the republic. The England its birth was difficult, for all the midwifery of Macaulay and of Gladstone, but England is not the United States. The alien does not doubt, but he is not long a citizen before ugly suspicions grow up to cloud his mind...
...declassed in the heinous hierarchy of our parties, be stified by the knowledge that the tempting rungs have been filched from the ladder, and are distributed by the high mok-a-mok to his faithful chieftains? Why in short, do we prattle so happily of civil service reform as a fit accompli because men who sort letters and deliver mail are chosen by examination, when those who direct their activity are selected, simply and openly, by politicians? No really successful civil service, such as the British or the Swiss, has developed with this poison at its roots, and ours cannot...