Word: reforming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prosecutor. Near the end of his second mayoralty term, F.D.R. sent him off to serve as Governor General of the Philippines, where he helped reform the islands' judicial system, improved its hospitals and pushed through suffrage. He returned in 1936 to get himself elected governor of Michigan...
Died. Dr. David Philipson, 86, "Dean of the American Reform Rabbinate"; in Boston. Longtime (1888-1938) rabbi of Cincinnati's Bene Israel Congregation, Dr. Philipson helped draw up the famed "Pittsburgh Platform" (1885), which set forth the principles of Reform Judaism, in 1907 wrote The Reform Movement in Judaism, still a standard work on the subject...
Machines & Emancipation. In 1804, one George Smart invented a chimney-sweeping machine which made it unnecessary for human sweeps to climb the flues, but it was 1819 before a reform act passed the House of Commons. The House of Lords killed it with the admonition of one peer "to leave reforms of this kind ... to the moral feeling of perhaps the most moral people on the face of the earth...
Enemies. A police captain named Earle Kynette and another officer were sent to San Quentin for the crime, and the administration of Mayor Frank Shaw was doomed. Bowron was pressed into service as a reform candidate; he was elected on his 16th wedding anniversary...
...West had another anniversary to celebrate. A year and one week ago, the U.S., Britain and France had introduced the currency reform in West Germany against which the Russians had retaliated with the siege of Berlin. Last week, West Germany was on the way to statehood and moving jerkily toward prosperity...