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...POLITICOS - Matthew Josephson -Harcourt, Brace ($4.50). Left-wing study of post-Civil War spoilsmen...
...joined the ranks of the puzzlers. His contribution was a 760-page volume that attempted a dual task: 1) to trace the careers of the Democratic and Republican parties through the four decades after the Civil War; 2) to draw a composite portrait of the professional politicians, party leaders, spoilsmen, local bosses...
...charter which created a city manager and proportional representation, making and keeping Cincinnati one of the best-governed cities in the land. Charlie Taft told the story two years ago in City Management: The Cincinnati Experiment.† Out of the fight he carried an abiding hatred of political spoilsmen, an abiding conviction that lasting reform can be achieved only when the electorate has been taught to understand and want...
Professor Glueck complained that one of the worst faults of present local administration was that it was likely to fall into the hands of political spoilsmen. The remedy of this situation he sees as the establishment of an informal, professionally staffed, citizens' committee, to represent the people, which would check up on the various law-enforcing agencies...
...Richard H. Dana '74, of Cambridge, was the speaker at the smoke talk of the Civil Service Reform Club yesterday evening. He gave a general view of the reform, showing with much clearness its objects and methods, and meeting conclusively the common objections of the spoilsmen. In concluding, he spoke of the need for young men to take up the work and carry it on; and made an earnest appeal to those present to take an interest in the reform...