Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...understandable why you ridicule the Justice's advocacy of land reform in Asia, while you praise the land-reform program adopted by ECOSOC upon motion...
...machine found itself in need of a shining, bright-eyed new face. The reform forces of Governor Lloyd Stark were bearing down on Kansas City and threatening to put the corrupt police department under state control. Pendergast & Co. kicked out Onie Higgins (he later went to prison) and put Onie's diplomatic doorman behind Higgins' desk. Boyle was told to "clean up the town and keep it clean." Police Director Boyle followed his orders enthusiastically. In person, he raided gambling houses, broke up slot machines, closed up the red-light district, shut down saloons, and even tossed some...
...Moves & a Jump. But it was later than Tom Pendergast thought. In three months the State moved in, and Bill Boyle was no longer police director. He moved over to the Pendergast redoubt at City Hall, became commissioner of street cleaning. A reform mayor fired him in 1940, and he moved again: this time to the job of assistant prosecuting attorney in the county courthouse, the last Pendergast citadel. It was dull work; his main assignment was to take confessed criminals before the court to enter guilty pleas. "To my knowledge," said Bill's good friend, Lawyer Shannon Douglas...
...years, political reform movements have been drifting across the Boston scene without leaving so much as a white splotch on the grimy City Hall. When a reform organization called the New Boston Committee began to make noises this year, many an old politician discounted it as just another collection of do-gooders going nowhere. Boston was in for a surprise...
Suggestions for this reform were first made in the Report on Advising, which committee headed by Dean Bender submitted last fall and toward which the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has since extended official sympathy...