Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first glimpse, "The Lawbreaker" at the St. James promised to be a rather well-coated pill of conventional morality. Then by dextrous sleight of hand the reform play became a potential tragedy, the theme of which was, "Mind your own business"; the calomel was changed for quinine. And at the last, of course, was dragged in the inevitable happy ending, for the sake of the sugar. A surprise play it was, in other words, with the plausible cleverly substituted for the logical at each turning point. A psychological study it was, too, of not inconsiderable power...
...very restraint. Mark Kent made a ruthless and unscrupulous financier, yet with an almost superstitious reverence for the letter of the law. Walter Gilbert's lawbreaker was more than characteristically good; and, playing with unusual reserve, Miss Roach, as the banker's daughter with a penchant for reform, had well-deserved success. And Evata Nudsen made a really charming Gold-digger, perhaps over vociferous at times, perhaps too frequent and vehement in her assertions that she was a "good girl", for that is one of those things that should need no assertion--but that is the fault of the author...
Such is the stage set for the entrance into the field of a third party. In Senator Borah's words, the people want progress, action, and reform. If they cannot bring it about within the present parties, they want a new party. Whether the third entry will prove a temporary one like the Progressives of 1912, or will come into the field for a long stay, like the Republicans, rising from the ruins of the Whigs in 1856, is an open conjecture. But the stage is set for a political turn-over, and the new party, temporary or permanent, will...
...Politics" in a new American thesaurus might be bracketed with "unfairness", "laxity", "bribery", "corruption", "venality", "nepotism", and "fraud". These terms fly about whenever our thick political mud is stirred by investigation, reform, or election. By a process of association these ideas are inseparably connected. We laugh at humorists who use this condition as a theme, yet it is the thoughtless laughter which reflection stifles...
...with his appointment as Deputy Police Commissioner in New York City, began Colonel Wood's important work in connection with the Police Department of the Metropolis. When John Purray Mitchell was elected mayor on a reform ticket in 1914 one of his first and most important appointments was that of Colonel Woods as Police Commissioner. During the three years that followed, the latter reorganized the Police Department and enforced the laws of New York in a capable manner...