Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reform Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia began to break the 17-year rule of Tammany Hall over the city's public schools. One February day in 1935 he filled a vacancy on the Board of Education with a squarejawed, tousle-headed young man named James Marshall. His very first day Jimmy Marshall split not only with the Tammanyites but with his Fusion colleague, supported a bill to raise the compulsory school age to 18. Before the month was out he was known as the most uncompromising member of the Board of Education...
Chief extracurricular activity of James Marshall, however, is fighting juvenile delinquency and crime. A onetime boys' reform school president, when he became a member of the Board of Education he promptly started a two-year survey of maladjustment and delinquency in the schools which last fall proposed an elaborate program for keeping youngsters out of mischief...
...election last week as New York Stock Exchange governors were 27 out & out reformers, a complete change from the "Old Guard" whose long rule reached a climax two months ago in the Richard Whitney scandal. This revolution in the most capitalistic organization in the U. S. drew 924 members to the polls, a record. Since the reform slate was unopposed, those die-hards who wished to show disapproval had only one way to do so: by scratching names off the ballots. The man whose name was scratched most-163 times-was shock-haired Broker Paul Vincent Shields of Shields...
...went into the brokerage business for himself. Presently Shields & Co. was one of the largest wire houses in Wall Street with offices in 16 U. S. cities, four abroad. Paul Shields became something of a yachtsman and golfer, and his step-daughter married Gary Cooper, but reform in Wall Street remained his chief interest...
Note. Broker Paul Shields, pleased with his success in being "the man behind" the reform of the New York Stock Exchange (see p. 51), several weeks ago set out to do as much for the utilities. He invited Wendell Willkie, Chairman C. E. Groesbeck of Electric Bond & Share and President James F. Fogarty of North American Co. to lunch, proposed that a neutral board of tycoons act as umpires in the battle against the Holding Company Act. Wendell Willkie objected and there was something of a row. The utility magnates wound up by having a conference with SEC Chairman William...