Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fancy-dressing hillbilly tenor, and composer of such eminent sockeroos as You Are My Sunshine, Nobody's Darlin' but Mine, and It Makes No Difference Now. The losers were egg-bald 67-year-old Lewis L. Morgan, longtime public chairwarmer in the state's pre-reform days, and other "old regulars" of New Orleans Mayor Robert S. Maestri's machine. Tenor Davis, supported by Governor Sam Houston (''Sweet-Smellin' Sam") Jones, gave the Longsters even a worse walloping than Jones had given them in 1940-a 37,000 vote majority...
...high-pitched cry: "I've been wearing animal-skin scanties too long. My chest is calloused from beating it, and I've climbed more trees than a lumberjack. My lines have read like a backward two-year-old talking to his nurse." His program of dress reform, in order of his new movie costumes: 1) a Marine combat-correspondent's uniform, 2) a cowboy outfit, 3) a business suit, 4) perhaps, eventually, evening dress...
...million hard-pressed people were still the economic and social problems of living jampacked into 3,435 square miles of an unindustrialized, one-crop country. Likeliest candidate for the new governorship was Roost-Ruler Marin, who has maintained his prestige by plugging for social and economic reform...
...elected with faculty advice for a very short term, subject to impeachment by a faculty vote of no confidence−with responsibility for University policies then falling on the faculty.* > Hutchins proposed that faculty rank be abolished as dividing the university community. This would supplement the recent Chicago reform whereby faculty contracts will be gradually rewritten 1) to command every professor's full time for eleven months a year at an improved salary, 2) to pour into the University's coffers whatever money facultymen earn from lecturing, broadcasting, publishing outside the University. But Hutchins will let a Nobel...
This week, when the legislature meets in special session, another record seems sure to be set. Governor Warren has asked the legislature for but three measures: 1) prison reform; 2) soldiers' vote bill; 3) authorization of a constitutional amendment permitting the state to tax federal lands. (The Governor will dodge the touchy issue of California's relocated Japanese citizens.) Legislative leaders expect the session to last just three days. Reason for the speed is Earl Warren's established practice of thoroughly thrashing out bills in citizens' committees and informal groups of legislators before they are even...