Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the omission of any civil service reform in the new Reorganization Bill indicates the tentacles of the spoils system are still strong, the recent tendency to recruit more university students for permanent political jobs is encouraging. New positions are now available to men with a regular four year college training in the Social Sciences or in Public Administration. And, even more important, examinations for entrance into the service are now more closely correlated to the educational system. Such steps as these make it evident that the government now recognizes the need for a greater reservoir of expert opinion...
Count Teleki retained the former Premier's Cabinet intact, that he announced that the Imredy racial laws and land reform schemes would not be scrapped. But the Jewish legislation was expected to be modified in application if not on the statute books and land reform would probably be slowed up. Weak Hungary could not afford to slap the Nazis directly in the face by abandoning the bills. The new Government was expected outwardly to comply with Nazi wishes, but at the same time quietly to sabotage the laws' effectiveness...
Quite apart from the fact that in all their pictures the Kids have undergone a miraculous, almost evangelical, reform, there is another and more obvious fallacy in the Commissioner's dialectic. The play which gave the young actors their name was produced in an attempt to expose the causes for a condition that had long existed in all large American cities. Largely as a result of the play and its celluloid counterparts, welfare agencies have benefitted from increased public interest and support in the work of juvenile guidance...
Also on the program is "Off the Record," set in a newspaper office that actually resembles a newspaper office, and concerning the attempt of Joan Blondell and Pat O'Brien to reform a criminally inclined youngster, played by Bobby (Dead End) Jordan...
...miserable time. The food is wretched, the superintendent has an ugly temper and they are overcharged at the company store. Presently, Jesse and friends try to run away. Bloodhounds trail them. They are hauled into court again, but this time a kindly judge sends them off to a kindly reform school, sternly reprimands their employers...