Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...request for the League's help in the international reform of penal administration...
...Primer resembles New Russia's Primer (TIME, May 4). But the Russia book was written especially for native schoolchildren. America's Primer is a phrase book for those discontented, restless, loosely anchored, ever-thinking, rarely-doing citizens of the larger U. S. communities who grope for but seldom encompass Reform. They are the folks who discuss what Colyumist Heywood Broun writes, who when abnormally excited vote for Socialist Norman Thomas, both good friends of Author Ernst...
...volunteer settlement work, researched the cost of living, helped locally with Belgian relief, returned to Denver to serve as chief probation officer of the Juvenile Court under Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey (since ousted). For her liberal views her father had scant sympathy. He used to mock her efforts to reform Industry and Labor. When he died in 1927, Miss Josephine inherited a large block of Rocky Mountain stock. She bought more, bought control of the company in 1928. Soon thereafter Rocky Mountain Fuel began making Colorado industrial history...
...calmly took the witness stand, applause rang out from his friends packed into the court room. Waiting to question him was large, pontifical Inquisitor Samuel Seabury, the committee's counsel, spearhead of the forces of Reform. The subject of the interrogation was a telephone call made by Boss Curry last month. The committee had got a horse doctor named William Francis Doyle sentenced to jail for contempt because he refused to answer questions affecting Tammany officeholders. Boss Curry had telephoned Appellate Justice Henry L. Sherman, vacationing at Lake Placid, and induced him to hear a petition which resulted...
...view no financial diplomat could better express the hard truth which Germany had yet to be told than Banker Wiggin. As head of the Committee he could say these things privately or call as he did upon other speakers. Sir Walter Layton was loud in demanding German fiscal reform; he pointed proudly to the drastic economies that Britain is considering...