Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this doubt with determination. Josephus Daniels said: "The primary duty of Democrats in the South and other sections is to stand by the ship and concentrate every effort in securing the election of a Democratic Senate and House which will give hearty support to Smith in every measure of reform in which we stand together. . . . But they should stand in Congress like a stone wall against any recommendation that Smith as President should make to modify the Prohibition enforcement...
Much of the benevolent legislation has been effected by the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness of which Chief Justice Taft is honorary president. Last week was published a summary of 20 years work: legislative reform, demonstrations, sight saving classes, propaganda. Chief of triumphs was the annual decrease of "babies sore eyes" as a cause of blindness among those admitted to schools for the blind. Today it is 64% less than it was 20 years ago. The goal is a 100% decrease...
Alabama was the last of the States to abolish the leasing of convict labor. Agitation for the reform began in 1915 but progressed slowly in the State whose senior Senator is James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin. In 1923 the Alabama Legislature passed the reform law. Not until last year and this, under Governor Bibb Graves. were the State's penal facilities built up to accommodate all the State's prisoners...
However, since the present ruling class of Young Turks are not pious Mohammedans, it was natural, last week, that the Commission on Religious Reform, recently appointed by President Mustafa Kemal Pasha should recommend: 1) Pews to cover the floor of every mosque; 2) abolition of the mosque slipper and prayer rug; 3) installation of organs, choirs...
...Glenn was nominated in the Illinois "reform" primary in April (TIME, April...