Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Collier's the President continued a series of articles defending his 1937 fight to reform the Supreme Court, his attempt to purge Congress in 1938. "These forces," wrote the President, "had tried stubbornly ... to stop our program of reform. They had failed. . . . Therefore, through the years of 1937 and 1938, their activities to impede progress and to bring about a repeal ... of the New Deal . . .were redoubled." At a press conference last week the President tartly rebuked a newsman for dragging party questions into the picture when the U.S. is in danger. But when it came...
...Harvard at twelve), the greatest orator between Patrick Henry and Henry Clay (Congress adjourned after one of his speeches, to let the spell of his eloquence expire), Fisher Ames looked like one of the most promising statesmen in U.S. history. But when Jefferson became President, launched his plans to reform the courts, bought Louisiana without bothering with Congress, Fisher Ames became a prophet of doom...
...typhoid injections. They live in the 150-year-old house of a retired Wyoming Valley lawyer-farmer. They pay $50 (some have scholarships) for the four-week session, for food, staff salaries, etc. Camp director is young (32), pipe-smoking Edward Wright, teacher (Fieldston School), New York City Republican reform politician (he ran for the City Council last year). On his staff are a medical student, who looks after campers' hurts, an educational director and Work Director Stanley Mesavage...
...first admanager of TIME. As vice president and advertising director he had a big share in the successful development of TIME Inc. publications. Earnest, energetic, keen on public service, he was for a year (1935) relief director in Pennsylvania, has been president of the National Civil Service Reform League. Realizing his lack of experience as an educator, President Johnson stipulated that Temple's trustees should create a new job, provost, to supervise the university's educational program. As president, Johnson hopes to develop at Temple a training center for civil servants...
Knifey hitchhiked back to Chicago, looked up a couple of pals he had met at reform school, Charles Kwasinski and Clarence Schwark. Standing on a street corner, Knifey suggested sticking up a hotel. "Nuts to you," said Kwasinski as he made a grab for Knifey's gun. Knifey let him have it, left him mortally wounded on the street. "They're punks," said Knifey. "I fired at the other goof too, but I missed...