Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just happily remarried. Being a reform mayor in a place like Chicago is grueling work, and the stage, even in vasty, gusty Chicago, would be small and local compared to the Interior and PWA. Getting the nomination in February's primary might not be easy, either. State's Attorney Tom Courtney, able and fearless, is burning to be the Nash-Kelly smasher...
...managed the (unsuccessful) reform campaigns of John M. Harlan (1905) and Charles E. Merriam (1911) for Mayor. More successful in local politics was his first wife, Anna Wilmarth Ickes, who cut a figure in the Legislature...
...further complaints about House dinners can be made if persons not formally invited are permitted to eat at the regular time, i.e. between five thirty and seven-fifteen. If, encouraged by such a reform, the remaining Houses add the high table to their weekly dinners, they may well follow the model of Lowell, where the tutors and their guests eat apart from the rest. A high table for all the Houses, which does not disrupt normal eating, should enough improve the socio-intellectual life of each to satisfy the supporters of culture through cuisine...
...Angeles was too busy to mind. It was in the thick of one of its periodic reform dramas, beggaring any movie and featuring a bomb, a Thin Man, a false-bottomed...
Columnist Westbrook Pegler likes California so much that he tries to reform it. Critical of San Francisco statuary, he lately set out to improve it with work of his own (see cut, col. 3). Last week he frothed at Los Angeles, home of EPIC, land of Ham & Eggs, as follows...