Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alabama: rebuilding storm sewers in Montgomery; malaria control in Mobile; cleaning the Cahaba River in Bibb County; steel bridge over Copeland Creek in Madison; double treatment asphalt street paving in Greenville; improving cemetery drives in Gadsden; a reform school in Mt. Meigs; a swimming pool in Columbiana...
...stronger than the first draft, a bill which is not a victory or a defeat for any one, but is simply the outcome of a useful discussion by honest and reasonable and modest men. ... If the Utility Bill is a shining example of how not to go about a reform, the Banking Bill is an excellent example of how to go about it. ... The essential difference lies in the fact that the Banking Bill was in the hands of moderate men looking for results, whereas the Utility Bill was in the hands of fanatics looking for a fight...
...Senator Glass had one swift surprise for the Administration?permission for commercial banks to resume underwriting of securities. Divorce of deposit banking and securities selling was almost the first New Deal financial reform. The Glass provision would not allow banks to return to the retailing of securities through affiliates but it would allow them the profits of underwriting and wholesaling. Consequently shares of big Manhattan and Chicago banks soared on the news last week. One of the biggest beneficiaries would be J. P. Morgan & Co., which under the Banking Act of 1955 chose to surrender its commanding position in security...
Youngest rabbi at the Pittsburgh meeting was David Philipson, its secretary. By last week Rabbi Philipson, white-haired and goat-bearded at 72, was the only survivor of that historic gathering. Called the "dean of the Reform rabbinate," he is the shepherd of B'ne Israel Congregation in Cincinnati and honorary president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, mouthpiece of Reform Jewry. In the latter capacity Dr. Philipson last week journeyed to Chicago for C. C. A. R.'s 46th annual meeting...
...much like a convention of doctors or dentists, Rabbi Samuel Goldenson key-noted in the Platform's vein: Let Jews beware of any current secular movement which tends to consider Judaism a civilization rather than a religion. But Rabbi Philipson declared the time had come to re-examine Reform Jewry's credo, see how it stacked up under modern conditions. And the conference took the first step, after stormy debate and cries of "subterfuge" and "cowardice," by reversing its stand on Zionism, resolving: "We are persuaded that acceptance or rejection of the Zionist program should be left...