Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proclaiming that positions in his cabinet will be open to men of all parties and that Chairman Hamilton will not receive that usual sugarplum of campaign managers, the job of Postmaster-General, Governor Landon has attempted to portray himself as the St. George of civil service reform. One would like not to dispute the good intentions of the Kansas executive, for a government staff capable of rendering efficient service in modern conditions is one of the crying needs of the country. But aside from the obvious fact that cabinet positions hardly rest in a class with the rank and file...
...gives away his whole line of attack as insincere. Instead of allowing the organization to improve, if elected he would be only too glad to thaw out the present incumbents in favor of his own supporters. For such a man to sit on a pedestal as a champion of reform can hardly capture the confidence of the American people, or their voted...
...were in possession of Harvard's perennial and unsolvable problem. A three-cornered situation existed between Phillips Brooks House where the entire commuting body crowded into insufficient quarters and hampered the smooth running of the Social Service menage; the Dean's office where lack of funds or building blocked reform; and the Day Scholars who saw themselves, with justice, the owners of the soubriquet, "the University's forgotten...
This is a new departure amplifying and extending the work of the Social Service Committee. Small groups will study and discuss various aspects of these problems under the direction of members of the Massachusetts State Civil Service. Investigations into prison conditions and participation in reform work will afford practical application of information acquired in conference...
...Deal performance. On that assumption, Nominee Landon had up to last week pursued a campaign of sweet reasonableness, avoiding any violent or wholesale condemnation of the New Deal, endorsing outright or by implication many a New Deal policy, attacking other policies and performances not with specific proposals for reform but with generalities about economy, common sense, freedom and the American way. The only New Deal measure he had condemned specifically was the "cockeyed" corporation surplus tax. His only vigorous general complaint had been against New Deal spending. What he was offering the country, concluded wiseacres, was a cut-rate...