Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Women suspected of being witches were stripped naked and "cross bound" (the right thumb being tied to the left toe, and the left thumb to the right toe), whereupon they were thrown into water, and sank if innocent. British humanitarian, Archbishop Hincmar, dates from the ninth century the notable reform of a rope whereby sunken innocents were sometimes dragged out before they drowned...
...already conceded that the reorganization is the most progressive and thorough reform in the structure of State government undertaken by any State in the Union...
Budget. Fiscal reform accompanied administrative under the Smith regime. Governor Smith was presently to submit to the Legislature his state's first Executive Budget, certifying the state's needs "in the order of their importance" as determined by a special bureau. The Legislature had power to reduce, but not increase items, and to add items subject to the Governor's veto...
President Parker, looking back, claimed for the Council more or less credit in the following U. S. social and political developments: votes for women, abolition of legally segregated prostitution, the U. S. Children's Bureau (Department of Labor), juvenile courts, dress reform, Prohibition...
Goodwin received his degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Leipzig. Germany after he graduated from the Harvard Graduate School Since then he has been assistant secretary and secretary, of the National Civil Service Reform League and the New York Civil Service Reform Association...