Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...century Congress is not competent to cope with the complex problems of modern government. The need for Congressional reorganization, long heralded by political scientists, has been recognized by progressive Congressmen; and a joint, non-partisan committee, headed by Senator La Follette and Representative Monroney, has recommended a program of reform which is gratifyingly similar to that proposed by prominent university professors...
...District of Columbia, the report advocates a revamping of the overlapping, over powerful committee system. Congressional committee have long been the stronghold of the "rugged individualist" and the chief means by which a small group o men could deny the right of the majority to legislate. Therefore the reform urges that Senate standing committees be reduced from 48 to 18; House committee from 33 to 16. Each committee is to have a research board, staffed by technical experts who can give advice on measures coming under the committee's jurisdiction and on the conduct of agencies under its supervision...
Improvement of election procedure is not the only reform necessary in the house committee situation. Other things such as open meetings with the members of the house and the publication of house committee activities would help develop interest in the committees. But the fundamental thing is the right of free and frequent voting. Given this, house committees can become more than the kitchen cabinets of some student strong...
...long would it take to reform Japanese education? Barnard's Dean Virginia C. Gildersleeve, one of the traveling educators, said: "We'll have to wait 25 years to see how it works out." Guessed Chairman Stoddard: "A long time-decades...
Died. Colonel Albert Arnold Sprague, 69, wholesale grocer (Sprague Warner-Kenny Corp.), onetime "generalissimo" of Chicago's anti-crime committee, power behind Mayor Anton J. Cermak's short lived civic-reform drive (which ended in 1933 when Cermak was killed by an assassin's bullet intended for Franklin D. Roosevelt); in Chicago...