Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...youthful (31-year-old) Prosecutor of Hamilton County (Cincinnati) he was beaten in December in his attempt to convict George Remus, onetime 'legger and convict, "insane" wife-murderer. As an energetic idealist, Son Taft worked with a Citizens' Republican Committee to reform the G. O. P. in Cincinnati. He preached liberalism, integrity. But it did not go down. He was beaten for his own office, last week, by Nelson Schwab, a son of the late Dr. Louis Schwab, Cincinnati Mayor in the gang-ridden days of the late Boss Rud K. Hynicka. All but one of the Taft...
...sketch he is the stodgy pedant, a typical Victorian. Strachey thereby incurs the wrath of Arnold's great-grandson and present biographer, who adds nothing further to the portrait, but demonstrates, in a thoughtful, conscientious manner, Arnold's changes in school curriculum as the beginning of educational reform...
...understand . . . that the Governor [Alfred E. Smith] in casting those votes against those reform bills [touching gambling and the facilities for prostitution] might honestly have felt that the bills were unconstitutional or were not enforceable or infringed on personal liberty or encouraged police blackmail...
...Grasse with two objects in view. One is to lecture during the Tolstoi centennial in August and September. The other is shrouded in deepest Slavic mystery. Emil Louis George Hohenthal departed on the Mauretania, weighted down by the titles of his high offices: Secretary of the European International Reform Association; European Commissioner of the World Prohibition Federation. His -presence in the U. S., he declared, is no longer needed. Reason: the U. S. is thoroughly dry. George Jean Nathan, dramatic critic (Judge, The American Mercury), came down the gangplank of the Aquitania with a message: "All over France I found...
...National City Bank: "It is a dangerous and unhealthy trend." Said able Vice President Francis Hinckley Sisson of the Guaranty Trust Co: "This is one of the by-products of prosperity with which we have not learned to dal." Warned the wise Cleveland Trust Co.: "Clearly a reform is needed in New York banking practice." Screamed the financial writers, sensationally: "Boot leg Loans! Outlaw Banking!" Depressed, discouraged, the bond market fell to 98.29, the year's new low. But the stockmarket, still optimistic, held its own, advanced a little...