Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Third, the candidate has a golden opportunity to air his criticisms of the way the various departments are organized, and the courses offered. If a candidate has practicable schemes for reform, and is willing to take the time to make them readable and convincing, he may be sure to receive the cooperation of the members of the Board, and their aid in carrying through his ideas...
...Black Pit (TIME, April 1), the Group Theatre's Awake and Sing! (TIME, March 4) and its new double bill, he would probably have gone home with the bewildering conviction that the New York stage had traded the sock & buskin of entertainment for the gavel of Reform...
...consistently bungled his job, notably in public relations. Many a broker feels that the Exchange could have headed off at least the most onerous forms of Federal supervision if, instead of stubbornly defending the status quo, its president had led a movement for voluntary reform...
...material is present for several exciting novels and a monograph on prison reform but unfortunately the two various themes are so interwoven in this biography of the pioneer prison reformer that it is all much time wasted by the reader who wants to carry away any definite impressions...
...affable to all comers. He used to run around to his quota of parties, but nowadays he has little time for such gay amusement. Though he has not yet become a teetotaler, he is no longer the Huey Long of the Sands Point washroom. This change is not reform; it is ambition, guided by a keen sense of self-advantage. Senator Long may have his faults and flaws but he does not neglect his business, which is politics...