Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought of nothing but of what they could get out of it. I found the same thing both in Russia and in its spying organization. It was riddled with disillusion, self-interest and graft. These people were grabbing big sums for doing practically nothing.* At first I tried to reform them. I still burned with ideals. When Marjory and I were arrested we realized that by telling everything we would be ridding Moscow of men who were nothing but bloodsuckers." Aided by the French Sûreté, peaching Mr. & Mrs. Switz this week "disappeared...
...strike, Jack Neylan all but crippled NIRA's Section 7a in the West. But he sees no inconsistency between that and his oldtime sponsorship of California's Workmen's Compensation Act. To him, in the days of Hiram Johnson, good government meant Progressivism and social reform. But the definition of Progressivism did not include economic reform, and Neylan's Liberalism crystallized then & there. In 1919 he defended Charlotte Anita Whitney, at his own expense, against a charge of criminal syndicalism; but Radicals were not yet important in 1919. He honestly regarded the San Francisco strikers...
...appointment of President Harding. A staff officer of the 77th Division during the War. Col. Sherrill had been an Army engineer for nearly 24 years, could have retired in a year and a half. Cincinnati's offer was $25,000 but the city's brand new reform Charter looked far from permanent. Forfeiting his retirement pay, Col. Sherrill took the job. During the next five years, Col. Sherrill's clean, efficient management of Cincinnati s affairs became an historical example of good city government. A handsome, tactful North Carolinian, he made his decisions carefully, stuck to them...
Burgess Meredith began his brief career on Broadway two years ago by playing the Duck, Dormouse and Tweedledee in Eva Le Gallienne's production of Alice in Wonderland. He was a reform school hellion in Little Ol' Boy and a snippy Princetonian with white buckskin shoes in She Loves Me Not. For the past ten months he has been the voice of "Red" Davis, that hero of U. S. juveniles on the Beech-Nut radio hour. Grandson of a Protestant minister of Cleveland, Ohio, Meredith was sent to Manhattan to sing in the Cathedral of St. John...
These figures, then, can serve both as a warning of the fate lying in wait for the lowest third of the College, and as a reassurance to more serious or merely more successful students that the abolition of November and April grades will be a permanent reform...