Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That the President, by apparently abandoning his original arguments for Court reform, had now confessed that they were a mere disguise. The man who four months ago was Republican nominee for Vice President was last week so wrought up by Mr. Roosevelt's change of tactics that he wrote and signed an editorial in his Chicago Daily News which expressed the peak of Republican apprehension. Excerpts...
This rough & ready background stood Harold Fowler in good stead in 1933 when he mixed into reform politics in New York City, helped elect Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. As reward he was given the job of First Deputy Police Commissioner in charge of straightening out New York's traffic snarl, reducing accidents. With characteristic aggressiveness, Deputy Commissioner Fowler took to cruising over the city in blimps and autogiros to spot traffic jams, started safety enforcement contests between precincts, instituted numerous strict regulations for motor vehicles. Last week the worth of his work was recognized by the National Safety Council which...
Accepting its committee report off the closer coordination of College and House undergraduate government, the Student Council at a regular meeting last night voted down revision of Council membership. Instead, a platform of procedure reform within the body will take effect immediately...
...closing Landis advocated the reform in order that the Government may be able to handle its problems wisely and expediously, an ability which is "the essence of the survival of Democratic government...
Said Dean Bigelow of the projected reform: "Our graduates shall be good lawyers . . . with an understanding of the nature of [the] problems and conflicts [of society], what approaches there are to their solution, and some evaluation of the factors evolved in the application of the approaches. . . . The sit-down strike, the State and National legislation that has been produced and proposed in the last few years obviously involve problems to which a merely legalistic approach is not adequate." Added President Hutchins, onetime (1928-29) Yale Law Dean: "We hope to remove legal education from its remoteness from reality...