Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Downstater Scott W. Lucas of Havana for the U. S. Senate. Since then downstate has acquired an efficient political boss in the person of bald, forceful Governor Henry Horner (ne Levy), a onetime Chicago probate judge who quarreled with the Kelly-Nash machine and has set up his own "reform" machine to fight it. So last month, when paunchy Bill Dieterich, who has been a loyal if uninspired Rooseveltian in the Senate, returned to repair his Illinois political fences, he needed at least one machine to help...
...that there is definite sentiment in favor of reform of existent Freshman electoral institutions, I think the time opportune to present a plan embodying the desirable qualities of student democracy and calculated to eradicate the evils of the present, undemocratic Union Committee without returning to the former haphazard selection of class officers. There can be no quarrel with the assertion that an efficient, democratic organ is essential for the accomplishment of the many diverse problems facing so large a Class. It may be further asserted that this organ should be chosen early in the year directly by and from...
...Hence the Chicago Exchange ranks behind the New York Stock Exchange, New York Curb and the Boston Stock Exchange as a securities market. Last week to prove that it ranks behind no U. S. market in progressiveness, the Chicago Exchange beat the New York Stock Exchange to a major reform proposal by 24 hours...
...Chicago Exchange has never tangled with SEC and it had already initiated a reform survey three months before Bill Douglas cracked down on Charles Gay. Last week Chicago Exchange President Thaddeus Benson suddenly heard rumors that the Conway committee was about to report to Charles Gay. Eager to keep Chicago in the van, President Benson hastily got his governing committee to adopt a plan (subject to membership approval) for reorganization including the hiring of a paid president. One day later Charles Gay and Bill Douglas were handed a very similar plan conceived by the Conway committee...
...college editors, is also their advantage, for they are without the ties, convictions, and prejudices of older men. Ideally they mould and crystallize that which is finest in undergraduate opinion, developing and stimulating undergraduate thought, while staying always one jump ahead of the college in pointing the way to reform. Ideally they are conscious of their obligation, as Dean Leighton once put it, "to be accurate in statements of fact, and cognizant of other possible views in statements of opinion...