Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Bostonians have heard what city councilmen a few of their number have elected they can begin to wonder just why the Democratic Committee so very nearly swept the polls. The fact that it was admitted to be "a contest of the politicians against the so-called reform organizations" makes the victory all the stranger. An answer to the rather vexing problem presented by the result, of the elections can be found in Mr. Frank R. Kent's articles in the World's Work on "The Great Game of Politics"; and in one word that answer is: "machine...
...always the possibility that the Democrats will call a higher suit. Mr. Coolidge represents the solid conservatism of the country; Senator Johnson has apparently espoused a flabby liberalism; in the background may lurk the man--Democrat more likely than Republican--who will ride the rising tide of radicalism and reform into the presidency...
...games is the opening gun in their campaign to reduce the importance of athletics in American universities. Realizing the fallacy in the well-known assertion that "the best advertisement for a college is a winning team", the presidents of Amherst, Bates, Hamilton, Trinity, and Wesleyan have attempted an additional reform by insisting that their coaches be regular members of the teaching faculty...
...Council was overwhelmingly out of favor at the mass meeting, yet no action toward reform resulted. Consequently, the question "Do you desire the present Senior Council to remain in office?" was presented to the Senior class yesterday. There were 133 assenting, and 191 dissenting votes...
...those parts of the program enacted by the Imperial Conference have to be passed by all Governments concerned before they become operative. In view of impending general elections in Britain, the fate of the tariff preference, for example, is uncertain and may come to little, as did the Tariff Reform policy of Joseph Chamberlain...