Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conference smothered the controversy, adopted no resolution at all. But as the discussions passed on to other topics, the Governor of North Carolina, talking on special treatment for youthful criminals, found opportunity to show himself more subtle than his thunderous neighbor, with this allusion: "The tendency of American reformers is almost never to teach, to educate public opinion, to convince gradually the citizenry of the value of reform, but is to secure the passage of prohibitory legislation and then leave it to the Government to carry out the reformers' ideas. . . . We go in strongly for 'noble experiments...
...everyone knows, Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden's most famed magazines concern themselves with "confessions" of sex-conscious girls who go wrong, see the light, reform. They are: True Story, True Experiences, True Romances, Dream World. To comply with postal laws, intimate sex details are usually represented by three asterisks...
Author Chase, now 41, looks more like 41 than his publisher's photographs of him. His first book, The Tragedy of Waste, indicated civilization's waste, pleaded for reform. His second, Your Money's Worth, written in collaboration with F. J. Schlink, flayed 20th Century advertising methods (TIME, July...
Electoral Reform. "My Government proposes to institute an examination of experiences of the election so that the working of the law relating to parliamentary elections may be brought into conformity with new conditions...
Having just administered a mild rebuke to the Germanic cult of Nudism (TIME, July 1), long-faced William Ralph Inge, Very Reverend "Gloomy" Dean of St. Paul's, appeared last week as leader of a men's dress reform movement-a group of churchmen, actors and professional men militating for less and more beautiful clothes...