Word: reform
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Father Edward Joseph Flanagan, famed man-maker of Boys Town, Neb., went to Whittier, Calif, last week to make a little speech to the 232 tough, erring or merely mischievous inmates of California's reform school. The occasion was the inauguration of a new administrator of the school, T. A. Duffy, former Los Angeles schoolteacher. Good Father Flanagan pleaded with the boys to cooperate with the new administration "so you soon can take your normal place in society with other American boys." Five minutes later, 60 of Whittier's youngsters escaped...
...headed by Roberto M. Ortiz. Ortiz was a Radical whom the Conservatives thought they could handle, Castillo a Conservative who was considered harmless by the Radicals. Nobody could foresee then that Ortiz would infuriate his Conservative supporters by fighting for honest elections, or that before he could complete his reform he would be laid low with diabetes, plumping Castillo into the Casa Rosada. Castillo has been Acting President of Argentina since last July 3 (TIME, July...
...pondering a bill calling for the reorganization of FCC and an investigation of its activities. Senator White tirelessly points out that FCC was set up merely as a licensing body, views with alarm its New Dealish tendency to use the power to license as a power to reform. Should Senator White introduce a reorganization bill before FCC goes to work on the publishers, the Commission may find itself too busy covering its own chin to throw any punches at the publishers...
...Taurog's second try. That may have been unfortunate. For Men of Boys Town substitutes tears for sincerity. No one has time for happiness at Boys Town because the boys are too busy blubbering-over the death and burial of a pet mutt, the refusal of an embittered reform-school inmate to cheer up, the adoption and departure of their boy mayor...
...Poem For the New Year," composed recently by Dunstan Thompson, is a simple yet commanding appeal for faith while faith is crumbling, for reality when all childish dreams have turned to nightmares. The necessity of this moral reform seems obvious to everyone today; its appeal is eloquently voiced by Dunstan Thompson...