Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because talk was blossoming in reform circles of need for a new legislative purge of Wall Street as a result of the Whitney scandal, Assistant Attorney General Ambrose V. McCall took occasion as Richard Whitney finished his guilty plea to declare: "On the contrary, the Whitney case is the result of regulation that is stopping a practice that was apparently widespread in pledging customers' securities...
...patriotic breast of Senator McNaboe, whose record includes vigorous support of the New York Teachers' Oath Law and an oft repeated demand for an investigation of subversive activities on the Cornell campus. It is discouraging that a legislature which has just enacted a constructive program of social reform should have taken so seriously the emotional fulminations of Senator McNaboe, that it passed a bill which would bar from teaching posts some idealistic parlor pinks whose sole crime is the possession of a confused and incoherent social consciousness...
...devised. The one who always shifted without touching the clutch quite stole the show. On the way back to Cambridge after the ordeal, Mr. Yordan spouted elements of safe driving and made a pronounced full stop at every "stop" street, which touched the Vagabond's conscience. He resolved to reform. The Bureau for Street Traffic Research and the Newton girls had shown him the light...
Declaring that "it is now too late to call a convention" to deal with the question of changes in the Senior election procedure, the Student Council last night declined to accept the demands of the Committee for Electoral Reform. The group's demands were supported by 127 Senior signatures...
...Council regrets that the Committee on Electoral Reform did not present its petition before the Senior Class Elections had begun. Since the Committee has indicated to the council that it approved the nominations for the second elections, the proposed Senior Convention could only add names which could have been done by petition and possibly recommend changes in the electoral system...