Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself in the third person as "The Man Bilbo." He was sent to the State Legislature where he openly admitted taking bribes, but was acquitted by a jury. In 1916 he became Governor. In his first term he began a widely ballyhooed public building program of insane asylums, reform schools, tuberculosis sanatoria. There was the usual graft and corruption, but he managed to place his good friend Lee Maurice Russell in the Governor's chair when he retired after his four-year term...
...have secured reform in the whole administration of the labor provisions of the code," claimed Leader Gorman. Here he was on solid ground. Strongest point made by the Winant Board was that the National Cotton Textile Industrial Relations Board, which works through the Code Authority, was wholly ineffective, should be supplanted by a body like the autonomous and impartial Steel Labor Relations Board. The Winant Committee thought that "investigation of labor complaints against management by management itself cannot be defended...
...reform governments have no greater friends than U. S. churches. But political or economic reform is not always synonymous with moral reform. Though the churches cheered the Roosevelt New Deal into office, they were grievously disappointed when the Administration sponsored Repeal. To a lesser degree New York City's New Deal-the Fusion administration headed by fretful, fiery Fiorello LaGuardia-was backed by the clergy. Last Week this support also proved a bitter disappointment to the churches. Mayor LaGuardia was playing with the idea of a full-blown, out-in-the-open, Municipal Lottery...
...United States may have its feet on the ground" all too many of the latter are still insufficiently shod for a hard winter. While it may be stretching things too much to say that the shake-up in NRA means that the President is subscribing to "recovery before reform," it does at least indicate that he may put recovery before relief. All in all, there is a strong presumption in favor of the belief that the National Industrial Recovery Board is but a means of tapering off after the Johnsonian...
Warning of dire consequences soon to follow "if reform continues to precede recovery", Wallace B. Donham '98, dean of the Business School, predicted increased unemployment and business stagnation in the next twelve months if industrial managers are not at once encouraged. The dean spoke to the Advertising Club of Boston in conjunction with the Conference on Distribution at the Hotel Statler...