Word: reform
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Massachusetts Goes to the Dogs," the author states that attempts to reform a situation that allows the track operators a profit of 15 per cent on an annual betting business of $20,000,000 have so far been ineffectual. He cites the effort by Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14 to increase the percentage taken by the state, which was beaten at the last legislative session...
...been for Reconstruction. But their prophecies and backward looks combined to give the raw material that would enable future historians to characterize that decade-a purgatorial period that followed a fool's paradise, a time of confusion and panic, of scrimping, self-pity, despair, of painful reform of the social system, a time when Al Capone and Richard Whitney at last went to jail and many a liberal as stubborn as George Norris at last got a hearing-a time, above all. when suspicion flourished as wildly as had the speculative fever in the days before...
...celebration - purely social - of the Christian feast, that few rabbis bother any more to inveigh against it. Indeed, one rabbi last fortnight ardently defended Christmas-for-Jews, in the influential Protestant Christian Century. He was Louis Witt of Dayton, Ohio, leader in the Central Conference of American Rabbis, chief Reform Jewish body. Said Rabbi Witt...