Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once again it seems likely that New York will have a reform candidate in the lists against Vice, Corruption, and Tammany. This time it will be exmayor Joseph McKee opposing the present mayor, John F. O'Brien. The former is the white hope of the city liberals, but to an impartial observer he differs only superficially from the usual New York politician...
Much of the enthusiasm for McKee arose last year when he replaced Walker after the latter's resignation. Like a slightly bulbous fairly god-mother, he brandished the wand of reform over startled New Yorkers. His first economy measures took the city by surprise; though it was obvious to many that these moves were dictated by the city's banker-creditors, McKee was resoundingly lauded from press and pulpit. Taking advantage of his sudden popularity he issued scores of orders, closing burlesque shows here, and dictating now traffic rules there. With the coming of the fall elections McKee was even...
What a House & Senate majority could or would not do in the way of specific pension reform President Roosevelt was now ready to undertake if given full power. Gladly would he become the "whipping boy" (his word) for the veterans, thus letting timid members of Congress pass the blame to the White House. His proposal amounted to sweeping the whole patchwork pension system aside and starting afresh on a merit basis. Those with real War hurts would be fully cared for-but not malingerers. If a veteran was so permanently and totally disabled in civil life as to become...
...Senate investigation of the Chase Bank, no matter what it discloses, will now fall flat, for Mr. Aldrich has by his statement repudiated the policies of his predecessor, Albert Henry Wiggin. He can, unlike Charles Edwin Mitchell, declare himself in agreement with the critics of his bank. Moreover banking reform measures are now bound to be enacted, and little would be gained but public censure by opposing them. By speaking out Mr. Aldrich bettered his position, aligned himself with the prevailing banking spirit of the times...
Author Sayre's Rackety Rax got a good press and went to Hollywood; Hizzoner the Mayor deserves an even better fate. Riotously jovial satire, it sets ringing no tocsin of reform but the welkin echoes its topical tintinnabulations. Aside from and under its uproarious humor, Hizzoner the Mayor has grimmer implications that need underlining nowadays for few U. S. citizens. In the perennial Augean task of turning the rascals out, such hearty slapstick broom-thwacks as Author Sayre's may be as effective in the long run as all the Herculean street-cleaning apparatus of a Judge Seabury...