Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time since 1890) to keep its political secrets, and the Republican-controlled Legislature's committee which is investigating the Democratic administration of Tammany Town (TIME. April 6). The case is an illuminating example of a great U. S. city's established Ring at grips with the spasmodic spirit of Reform...
Judgment. Inquisitor Seabury awaited the judgment anxiously. If the high court upheld the decisions of the lower courts, he would be provided with a potent stick to prod from the city's political jungle a host of important facts hitherto lurking behind Immunity. If the decision were reversed, Reform would be rendered almost impotent. Each time it wanted to make a reluctant witness talk it would have to promise him a pardon from the Governor. Even then, the witness would not have to accept the pardon...
...carefully picked his Young Republican delegates mostly from petty jobholders. Last April he said: "Many of our universities and colleges are literally saturated with Radicalism. Text books, classroom lectures and private conversations ... are antagonistic to the traditional policies of the Republican party. ... As it is hopeless to expect a reform ... the approach to the young man and woman must be made independent of our educational system...
There are signs that the Labor Party will try to fight the next election on a platform of "Reform the House of Lords!" By "reform" the average Laborite understands a complete emasculation of the powers of the House of Lords, preparatory to its abolition...
...House Council, the student group can, better than ever before, justify the reason for its establishment--to act as an intermediate body between students and faculty. The problems of 1931-32 will be peculiarly adapted to the functions of the Council, arising, as they will, from the latest undergraduate reform, the House Plan...