Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Preliminary statistics from Phillips Brooks House, compiled from the records of religious affiliation obtained at registration, give the numerical representation of the various sects as follows: Baptist 157 Buddhist 4 Catholic 747 Christian Church 42 Christian Science 108 Congregational 410 Disciples of Christ 4 Dutch Reform 8 Episcopalians 469 Ethical Culture 2 Greek Orthodox 13 Jewish 827 Jewish Reformed 11 Lutheran 87 Methodist and Methodist Episcopal 258 Mormon 24 Mohammedan 3 Presbyterian 456 Protestant 226 Quaker (Friends)28 Unitarian...
...hopes for Localism to prove a barrier to the tide of Centralization in the coming years through a reform of the condition of local government...
...against the most popular Mayor Cleveland has elected since city managership was abandoned in 1929. Son of a professor of civil engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harold Burton migrated to Cleveland fresh from Harvard Law School, started practicing in 1912. He rode into the City Hall as a reform candidate in 1935. Now chunky, athletic and 49, Mayor Burton arrives at City Hall each morning at 8:30, works twelve hours a day, takes pride in his clean-up of the Cleveland police force, and although a Republican, claims credit for wangling $40,000,000 of WPA money...
...anything from a diplomat to a gunman; his times anything from the early eighteen hundreds to the present day. Fact is, he was a law-trained, wealthy politicaster, Manhattan-born, Harvard-bred and of old New England stock, who never held public office but was rampant in all the reform movements around the century's turn; who wrote widely and voluminously on subjects ranging from children's plays to the philosophy of Plato, from the Antigone of Sophocles to Al Smith; and who died, having known practically everybody and dabbled in everything, as recently as 1933. Tall, active...
...Hauptmann trial. The half-dozen recommendations which formed the nub of this week's report, therefore, while studiously avoiding any direct reference to the doings at Flemington, evoked strong recollections of that amazing case as point by point the committee implied a well-known horrible example for each reform proposed...