Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jerry Mahoney, once more consolidating the Democratic vote. Judge Mahoney being a New Dealer, and having won Jewish sympathy two years ago by standing out vigorously against U. S. participation in the Olympic Games at Berlin, Mayor LaGuardia will have only one major issue to fight on this fall: reform v. machine...
...nominating its own candidate for mayor, bumbling Senator Royal S. Copeland, on the Democratic ticket. Therefore, besides entering Dr. Copeland in the Democratic race against the smiling Irish face of Judge Jeremiah Titus Mahoney. Tammany entered Dr. Copeland in the Republican race against the city's explosive little reform mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia (TIME...
...Reform v. Machine. Because New Dealer LaGuardia succeeded in winning in a Republican primary, because most of New York City's newspapers, including Scripps-Howard's World-Telegram and Joseph Medill Patterson's News are his firm supporters, the primary results were hailed as a great LaGuardia victory. Such they were, for stubby little firebrand LaGuardia had bothered to make only one campaign speech...
...reduced to one major principle: opposition to planned society, collectivism, dictatorship. This leaves unsettled just one important question in regard to Mr. Lippmann, a question which cannot be answered until a more significant judgment has been made: whether the New Deal will be written down in history as social reform or as the Dictatorship of the Forgotten...
Then President Roosevelt delivered his Constitution Day (see p. 9) speech demonstrating that Court Reform, with him at least, was by no means a dead issue. Down went the market again, obliterating its rally, plowing into new low ground for the year. Despite its market effect the President's speech did not alter the obvious political fact that the Administration has no more intention of letting a runaway bear market develop now than it had to see a bull market get out of hand last spring. At that time the Federal Reserve Board was bearing down on credit. Fortnight...