Word: reformable
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...shelter, treatment, and discipline of physical, mental, and moral "lame ducks"; a species of sanatorium or reform school for young people who are "too much" for busy, lazy, or incompetent parents or guardians...
...freely asserted that all parties ran more or less amuck over the tariff, and forced into the background the important issues of: 1) Senate reform. 2) Tax reforms. 3) Immigration. 4) Transportation. Since "the will of the electorate" is now an obscure oracle on all of these important questions of Government policy, it is certain that there will soon be much reading between the votes by Canadian statesmen...
...Mutual Welfare League, which he organized in 1911 when he was warden of Sing Sing Prison. He first spent a week in Auburn prison as a convict under the name of "Tom Brown." and the knowledge gained thereby, coupled with the results of years of study of prison reform, caused him to organize the Mutual Welfare League among the prisoners...
...life Mr. Osborne has been a reformer. A native of Auburn, N. Y., he entered journalism immediately after his graduation from college. From the office of President of the Auburn Publishing Company, he jumped into polities; and though his advocation of reform cost him the lieutenant governorship of new York, he was elected Mayor of Auburn in 1903. His two years' administration was marked by inform and progressive measures...
...Osborn became very much interested in the prison situation and in 1913 he was appointed chairman of the New York Commission on Prison Reform. A year later he was made warden of Sing Sing...