Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Civic Pride. Peoria's 83-year-old Mayor Ed Woodruff was locally noted for taking pride in the town's "liberal" outlook. When a reform candidate-Carl O. Triebel, owner of the Ideal Troy Laundry-filed against him this year for the Republican nomination, old Ed Woodruff did not change his attitude: "Peoria likes to live and doesn't want to be told what to do and what not to do all the time...
...State's Attorney, who in turn shouted for a grand jury. The Army complained about Peoria's prostitutes and the FBI made a white-slave raid. All this was bad enough. But when Peoria discovered that gamblers, barmen and madams were showing interest in the reform candidate, it decided that Ed Woodruff had lost his steam. Last week Peoria voted, Laundryman Triebel won. Woodruff ran a bad fourth...
Under these circumstances, the Council concluded: attempts to use the antitrust laws to reform foreign industries (as Attorney General Biddle has been trying to do) would penalize only those firms subject to U.S. laws and jeopardize the U.S. position in postwar international trade...
...Last week, Oliver Stanley, His Majesty's Secretary of State for Colonies, was in the U.S., enunciating the proposition that Britain would reform its empire but would not submit to any form of international advice...
Neither Morley nor Fay knew what famous British agitator (John Wilkes) was half of an American city (WilkesBarre) and two-thirds of an American murderer (John Wilkes Booth). But the U.S. team correctly identified "The Tate" (London art gallery), "The Reform" (political club), and "Bart's" (St. Bartholomew's Hospital...