Word: reforming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Strawbridge movement appeared to be in retort to the work of fashionable Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin of Manhattan and other founders of the new Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, whose object is to stamp out the hypocrisy of dry-voting by wet-drinkers and get the law changed (TIME, June 10). Socially formidable antagonists to Mrs. Strawbridge in Philadelphia will be Mrs. Archibald Barklie, Novelist Agnes Repplier, Mrs. Herbert Lincoln Clark...
...regular Republicans grumped about overburdening the Civil Service Commission with unnecessary work and prayed that the House would knock this "reform" provision out of the bill. It remained for a Democratic Senator, South Carolina's Blease, to put into words their true sentiments about this innovation...
Fifty women, representing 17 states, met in Chicago, formed the Woman's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. Mrs. Sabin, leading spirit, was chosen chairman. The purpose: to enlist five million women to fight Prohibition, to favor Temperance...
...President's broadening of the commission's scope would cause them to protest that their special handi work was not receiving its proper share of attention. But no protest came from the Drys, who viewed the commission as an agency that must inevitably recommend officially enforcement of a Reform which they effected unofficially. What they did mind was not having their hard-hitting prohibition enforcer, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, placed in charge. Nor was Mrs. Willebrandt particularly pleased with what some called a "snub" and last week intimated that she would resign her posi-tion as Assistant Attorney General...
Hague supporters rioted jubilantly in the streets. The Reform headquarters were raided and wrecked. The morning after election Burkitt called to congratulate a Hague police captain at his station. Leaping to his feet, the officer met his well-wisher with "Now you lousy faker, get to hell out of here." Thereupon the "Jeffersonian Democrat" was shunted into the street, to be cursed and stoned by a Hague crowd...