Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college endowments. Colleges were homes for the life-study of the highest and most abstruse parts of knowledge. They, have become boarding schools in which the elements of the learned languages are taught to youths." When we read this indictment penned before the completion of the nineteenth century reform of Oxford we may well ask: If the intellectual division of labour which Newman advocated' and which still finds proponents in our own time is to be desired, why were the English universities in so unsatisfactory a condition? The accidents of time had destroyed the ancient function of advancing knowledge...
Pete was a pleasant-appearing, healthy, realistic Philadelphia boy who grew up in a neighborhood where he never had a chance. He spent a little time in a reform school, was mixed up in a few mild robberies, became a snappy dresser, a smooth dancer, a competent wisecracker, a good fighter who suffered the agreeable misfortune of being pursued by pretty, immoral girls who could not leave him alone. A shifty friend named Slavin got him a job in a bank, but just as Pete was beginning to get ahead, Slavin was arrested for theft...
...must choose between President Roosevelt or Governor Landon. . . . For the liberals to split their votes is merely to play into the hands of the Wall Street gang. I have the utmost respect for the Union ticket candidate [z. e., William Lemke] and for Father Coughlin, whose program of monetary reform is sound. . . . However, I think the defeat of Landon is of the utmost importance to the great masses of America. . . ." Second telegram was to Franklin Roosevelt, who had wired him to ''keep up the good fight," suggested seeing him on his drought trip to Minnesota. To the President...
Pursuing a bland course through all this excitement, Detectives Harwood and Fenton eventually dig through the intrigues of a bogus reform group, pin the crimes on the least suspectable person in a final melee, which, for those cinemaddicts who want their mysteries solved with explicit completeness, is about the only unsatisfying thing in the picture...
Arlington Park's operating methods are remarkable because they are unique. Its success is remarkable because it is nothing of the sort. A wave to reform Reform laws against gambling swept the U. S. in 1933. Gambling is now legal in 26 states and the renaissance of horse racing that started in 1932 is still booming. Since 1933 14 new tracks have opened and $3,000,000,000 have been wagered. As noteworthy as the success of Chicago's Arlington Park has been that of at least two other major U. S. establishments officially dedicated to improving...