Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honest Cincinnatians freed their city from boss rule by voting a new city charter, entrusting municipal affairs to a nine-man council which elected one of its number mayor and chose a city manager. Only the dreamiest idealists expect an aroused citizenry to burn with reforming zeal all year round. But, as successive city campaigns have shown, Cincinnati's voters are not very excited about their reform government even on election day. Last November the City Charter Committee (reform) Administration again excited the admiration of less fortunate U. S. communities by floating $2,000,000 worth of long-term...
...Constitutional Convention, sponsoring initiative, referendum, municipal home rule. In 1917, while speaking across the Ohio River in Kentucky, he was brutally beaten by sheeted men who said they had horse whipped him "in the name of Belgium's women and children." In 1924 he was sponsoring a charter reform when the City Charter Committee was just getting under way. The two movements merged, but not until the last election did Preacher Bigelow get a seat on the municipal council. Meantime he had worked up a hub bub against utility companies. He had also joined Father Coughlin's National...
While a radical reform in the whole educational system must come within the next fifty years, it would be an easy step toward the desired goal to reduce the number of years spent in College. There are at present 26 schools associated with Harvard in helping their students pass the required language examinations and in working out a process of certification to obviate College Boards...
...President Roosevelt last week Professor Howard Lee McBain of Columbia University said: "In the midst of a national crisis giving him opportunities for reform never before possessed by a President, he has chosen for personal and party inte/ests to play the usual game of putrid party politics...
...Congress on an independent ticket against both Republican and Democratic machines. By an accident he is elected, finds himself beholden not only to the machine he thought he was fighting but to the racketeering element. His newfound law partner, Myerberg, makes short work of his scruples: "When a reform movement elects one of its members to office, that ends it, there is nothing more for it to do ... the reform has won." Learning every minute. Caridius commutes by plane to his seat in the House, makes valuable new contacts in Megapolis. Most immediately valuable is Banker Littenham. who lets...