Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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three well-known crusaders for civic reform will speak on "Corruption in the Cities in the first of the Law School Sanders spring series at 8 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theatre...
...officials based their belief on the fact that the appointment has caused a marked split within the ranks of the Cambridge Civic Association, a non-partisan, reform organization that has consistently backed Atkinson. The C.C.A. now controls the council majority...
...Lincoln Steffens was right, corruption is the norm of U.S. political life; in spite of reform, the pols always come back; the Sir Galahads, sooner or later, get licked, or get laughed out of court, or join the gang. But men like Adlai Stevenson have dedicated themselves to a more hopeful and more dynamic proposition: that the U.S. is not a static pattern but a still-continuing experiment-an experiment, among other things, in good government...
This time, however, it is reported that three councillors within the Civic Association's ranks are displeased with some of the City Manager's actions. The councillors, elected on a non-partisan, reform platform, believe that Atkinson has failed to carry through important programs, probably because Atkinson has felt that by submitting to the demands, he would cause the tax rate to climb...
Maass first went to Washington fresh out of Johns Hopkins in 1939 when he was requested to become what was known as a Government Interne. Inspired by Roosevek's 1938 effort to reform the Civil Service, financed by John D. Rockefeller, and run by the National Institute of Public Affairs, the Government Interne plan recruited forty college juniors of all-around ability and put them to work for a year. Although the plan offered no pay, for that would have enmeshed it in the Civil Service seniority and protocol system, it offered students a quick way to enter whatever agency...