Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moines (to postmasters): "Everything we do should be calculated to assist and encourage private enterprise." Crossing Missouri, Jim Farley listened closely to what people had to say about Democrat Lloyd C. Stark, fair-haired reform Governor. He was careful to avoid Boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City, upon whom Governor Stark sicked Attorney-General Murphy and got him indicted (TIME, April 17). In Kansas, which went Republican last year, Jim Farley got right down to the grassroots, motored from Salina to Topeka with stops at a dozen towns. Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona were on his course, then California, where...
...great majority of citizens who could not otherwise enjoy them. No one can deny that in this attempt, the Administration has made mistakes, has been guilty of extravagance and short-sightedness. No such tremendous effort, newly launched, can deny its feet of clay. Certainly these defects warrant reform, but not the slaughter which bloodthirsty senators demand...
...reform wave whipped up by the News Negro leaders saw their chance to improve the condition of Miami's ramshackle, malodorous Negro section on the city's east side. They stirred up such interest in the commission primary that election officials provided two extra, segregated voting machines in the chief Negro polling place, the fifth precinct fire station. Evening before primary day, certain white citizens took other precautions...
...policemen were conspicuously absent from the Negro section. But on primary day, spurred by Police Chief H. Leslie Quigg who was spurred by publicity, police dispersed ominous knots of white men near the polling places. Before the polls closed, more than 1,000 Negroes cast ballots, mostly for the reform candidates. By City Clerk Frank J. Kelly's estimate, this was 20 times more than in any previous Miami election. Incidental result of the primary: the reform administration elected a complete city council...
Minnesota's New Republican Governor Harold Stassen last week presented himself in Washington as a young man worthy of note because: 1) he had just put a bang-up, middle-of-the-road reform program through his first Legislature, and 2) he cannot run for the Presidency next year. He is 32, will be nicely past the Constitutional minimum of 35 in 1944. Harold Stassen's first purpose in visiting Washington was to promote cooperation between his reorganized State Government and the Roosevelt Administration. His second was to tell G. 0. P. Chairman John Hamilton how to turn...