Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home for wayward boys took charge of him, put him on a farm near Momence, 40 miles south of Chicago. There Knifey broke into the home of a neighbor, eccentric old Farmer Henry Allain, who was always pottering about with inventions. So they sent Knifey to St. Charles reform school for boys. A year ago he was paroled for good behavior...
Britain last week began to reform its teaching of U.S. history. The Board of Education's first step was to start summer-vacation courses for British schoolteachers on U.S. life. Some subjects: U.S. domestic life and arts, literature, geography, painting and sculpture, the U.S. Constitution and Presidents (by Harold Laski), the South, "Main Street." For instructors, it drew heavily on U.S. citizens in Britain, among them Reporter Vincent Sheean...
Carl Brand's book (the 17th publication of the Hoover Library on War, Revolution, and Peace) answers an important question: Why did British labor stand solidly behind its Government while French labor was riddled with disloyalty? His answer: British labor held firmly for reform and against revolution in a 20-year struggle with the Communists, which Author Brand documents in great detail...
...plant was strike-shut. And even after strike leaders reached an agreement with the Board next day (raising wages 1? an hour), they deliberately delayed informing strikers. Unnecessarily lost were two full shifts of aluminum production. Washington, hopping mad, put the leaders under scrutiny, discovered that they included a reform-school graduate, an ex-convict and parole violator-and a whole basketful of alleged Communists...
...likely that the Court would have as much influence on him as he had on it. Senator Byrnes, an able parliamentarian, a remarkably effective Senate leader, a supporter-but not invariably-of Administration measures, was no judge, had no legal reputation. But he was not primarily concerned with social reform, and there was no question of his independence...