Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Victorious by 4-to-3 over the discredited incumbent. Warren L. Bishop, was boyish, clean-cut Robert F. ("Bob") Bradford, Republican reform candidate for district attorney of Middlesex County (TIME, Sept. 19). His Democratic counterpart, clean-cut, boyish Thomas H. ("Tom") Eliot, running against four Irishmen, narrowly won nomination for the House...
...another step in his program of advisory reform, Dean Leighton announced yesterday that Stanley C. Salmen '36 had been appointed Secretary to the Board of Freshman Advisers...
Thereupon the spotlight of the trial shifted from Thomas Dewey and James Hines to Ferdinand Pecora. As the reform candidate whom Tammanyite Hines helped Tammanyite Dodge beat at the polls in 1933, as a Democratic judge presiding over a case that might make Republican Dewey Governor of New York, Justice Pecora was put to hard test of judicial impartiality...
Prominent in the affairs of many a western U.S. State during the late 19th Century and early 20th were former bad men who had renounced their evil ways and reformed. To many a Westerner, the swashbuckling hold-up man who confined his depredations mainly to big banks and railroads was at least half hero. South of the Rio Grande the distinction between bandits and "liberators" has run even thinner. Last week, noted Mexican Bandit Enrique Rodríguez, nicknamed El Tallarin ("The Noodle"), surrendered to Governor Elpidio Perdomama of Morelos. Taken before military authorities at Mexico City, "The Noodle" explained...
...which have invaded it," the artist combined a silhouette map of Spain with a stormy night cloud, set against it a blasted tree gripping Spanish ground with talons, showed bayonets advancing in daylight over a peaceful plowman to drive away Death (see cut}. For Point VIII, "Through agrarian reform to liquidate the old semifeudal aristocratic estates," Artist Renau produced his most effective picture: a smiling, stubble-faced farmer holding a rustic pitchfork, with furrows ribboning behind toward a village and three bulls stylized with long morning shadows...