Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...highly desirable in principle. It is in grave danger of falling into disrepute, however, merely because of the haste with which it was enacted and the impossible burden assumed by the executive branch of the government. By its own rash action, the New Deal has been imperilling true social reform...
Sirs: Under Education in your issue of Sept. 28, appears an article on the new headmaster of the Taft School, and a brief statement on Horace D. Taft to the effect that Mr. Taft is devoting his vacation in California to his hobby-Civil Service Reform. While the article was not meant as a write-up of Mr. Taft, I do think the true facts of Mr. Taft's interest in the Merit System should be known...
...success of his Chicago oratory, Nominee Landon appeared in Cincinnati next morning to furnish more proof of his growing self-confidence. At the station to meet him was his favorite Cincinnatian and prized adviser, bright young Charles P. Taft II, leader in the city's Charter reform movement (TIME, Aug. 3). After shaking hands with other welcomers, Alf Landon turned to Charlie Taft, checked with him to be sure of the name "Charter," started toward a radio microphone set up for the occasion. Guessing the Nominee's intention, and well aware that the Charterites, now allied with local...
These are the men with whom Americans can sympathize; theirs was the real tragedy. They were of the liberal-intellectual group who believed that political and social problems must be examined by the clear rays of reason, who thought that enduring reform came only from an enlightened sports of peaceable compromise and free discussion. But their instrument of government was captured by Leftists and used for their own purposes, thus playing into the hands of another political group with a similar all-exclusive ideology, that of Fascism. In the background lay the stark facts that society was composed...
...Marshall's move follows a recommendation made last Spring by the 1939 Confidential Guide Committee. The reform had been considered in other years, he said, but largely through inertia, and the tradition of having no Union Committee Chairman, there continued to be none...