Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...process of wresting reform laws from unwilling legislatures is slow, three years being the usual period required, while eleven years were necessary in the recent reorganization of the Board of Regents...
...prominent New York lawyer who has been connected with the reform movement in that city. He was special assistant district attorney in the prosecution of police officials after the Lexow Committee's Investigation, 1894-6, and in 1897 was nominated for district attorney by the Citizens' Union. In 1901 he was a member of the reform Committee of Fifteen...
...member of the reform Committee of Fifteen, and has been vice-president of the Association of the Bar and also of the Harvard Club of New York City...
...Welling is a practicing New York lawyer who has taken an active part in the reform of city politics. He is one of the founders of the City Club, of New York, and the organizer of several good government clubs in the city and state. He served in the navy during the Spanish war as an ensign...
Through his lengthy and aggressive experience in the struggle for better municipal conditions, Mr. Welling has acquired an intimate knowledge of the ways and means of reform in city government...