Word: reforming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tricky bill which he wrote for Mr. Roosevelt in 1937 to New-Dealize the Supreme Court by adding six new Justices, which Congress indignantly refused to do. After Mr. Roosevelt signed, Mr. Cummings observed that this measure "puts the capsheaf" on Mr. Roosevelt's long fight for court reform. "Every objective the President had in mind has now been achieved," said Mr. Cummings...
...cannot long maintain financial solvency or free enterprise or even individual liberty in the United States. But the leaders of the movement against New Deal fallacies must have the courage to incur the unlimited displeasure of every vested interest whose selfish purposes conflict with a radical policy of reform. Furthermore, they must work out the very difficult problem of continuing an adequate provision for the less fortunate people through Relief, old age pensions, subsidized housing and the like on the one hand, while on the other restoring financial solvency and the spirit of business initiative and expansion which only...
...Declined to up income, bank and corporation taxes, vote a State wages & hours bill, reform the antiquated State prison system, regulate professional lobbyists...
These are the conclusions of the Kirkland House G-Entry Mission," its directors stated in an interview yesterday. They form the basis of an extensive platform from which to work toward the ultimate goal: reform for Harvard...
...Together with the Republican Legislature, he abolished the civil-service system which Reform Governor Frank Murphy contributed toward non-political administration, substituted the old-fashioned spoils system for most State offices. ("It has been said many times that under such conditions I have felt the need for spiritual wisdom. If there ever was a case where I could say this, this was one.") When the civil-service wrecker landed on the Governor's desk he said: "I have faith the right answer [whether to sign] will be made clear to me, perhaps this weekend." Mr. Dickinson and Mentor Boyles...