Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond does not beat his head against the wall and rave. He does not fling his pretty butterflies into the fireplace and swear reform. He does not sob plaintively under the heavy roller: "Why? Why? Why?" Instead he says, "Neither it is good, nor it is bad; but only--it is here," and he marks on his calendar with large red crosses the four days of his doom, which are now less than a fortnight hence...
...belief that this generation would do better to get the best out of its existing system rather than to urge theoretical systems. . . . The only agency with the power to condition capitalism and industrialism to survive is the Government. To this end I have supported, in general, the program of reform called the New Deal, with far more doubts about its adequacy than about its moderation...
Since 1836 Philadelphia's gasworks has often been a political football. The price of gas was reduced from $3.50 to $2.70 per i ,000 cu. ft. and its quality reduced to a point where it corroded stoves, when, in 1880 a reform movement ousted a city administration that was known as "the gas house gang." In 1897, however, when gas was down to $1, an era of peace set in with the granting of a 30-year lease on the gasworks to United Gas Improvement Co., first U. S. public utility holding company. In 1926 the city council...
Judge Mahoney's blast against Tammany Hall comes at a time when such attacks may be more practical effect then the crusades of colorful preachers and columnists. The movement to reform the Democratic organization of New York Country has the twofold advantage of a capable leader and a new environment in which Tammany is no longer the only organization catering to social needs...
Died. Newton Diehl Baker, 66, lawyer, scholar, Woodrow Wilson's peace-loving Wartime Secretary of War who organized an army of 4,000,000 men in less than two years; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Cleveland, Ohio. An early fighter for Cleveland reform and twice its mayor, he turned from trustbuster to corporation lawyer, from stanch Democrat to New Deal hater who this year helped contest TVA on behalf of power companies...