Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paul Moss is a big, grey-haired Jew whom Mayor LaGuardia picked to be New York's Commissioner of Licenses when he turned Tammany out of City Hall three years ago. Since the power to license is the power to reform, Commissioner Moss, who is as notable for his integrity as for his dapper dress, lost no time suppressing shortweight ice dealers, market racketeers, dirty magazine publishers...
...private life. Commissioner Moss's business was show business. He and his brother, Benjamin S. Moss, were pioneer chain cinemansion operators, he coproduced a hit called Subway Express and for a long time was a prominent Theatre Guildsman. It was only natural that Commissioner Moss should concentrate his reform zeal on Broadway. He requisitioned dress rehearsal seats to all productions so that if a show was dirty it could be cleaned up without the furor of revision after the opening. He made all casting offices take out licenses, rid the city of unscrupulous booking agents. In 1934 he requested...
...Douglas' idea of segregating the underwriting and merchandising functions of investment banking, Banker Hall cited SEC itself on the somewhat analogous problem of dealer-broker segregation, SEC having admitted in a report to Congress that it did not know enough about the subject to launch a broad reform program...
Thus the featured speaker sounded the keynote of the annual meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League in New York Thursday. Thirty-one colleges sent delegations to the gathering, the Harvard representatives being Russell J. Stern '88, of the Council of Government Concentrators, and Cleveland Amory '39, of the CRIMSON...
Dean Hanford has the following statement to make concerning the League: "The Civil Service Reform League is a reputable organization with a long and useful history. It has fought most of the important battles for the merit system in this country...