Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With all their disadvantages, the old panaceas for more courts, more Supreme Court justices, divisional sittings, have been revived since the Great War. Failing a Lord Chancellor (equivalent to a Ministry of Justice), leadership for reform is unofficial, and the less effective. Constant reform, however, is inevitable: "Law and courts are instruments of adjustment...
Coincident with the return to London of James Ramsay MacDonald, Leader of the Labor Party, a manifesto was issued, last week, declaring that the Party will champion "reform of the Bank of England" as a leading issue in the 1929 election. The "reform" envisions Labor representation on the Bank of England's omnipotent Governing Board...
...Dictator Mussolini approved last week the final draft of his famed "Parliamentary Reform Bill...
Therefore the Government considers it indispensable to reform our statutes in such a way that railway progress equal to that in other countries may be made in Mexico...
...enforcement of Prohibition as long as it is the law no one can justly doubt, after noting his declaration in that respect. I oppose and shall continue to oppose the changes he has suggested in the case of Prohibition, but I shall not permit my devotion to that great reform to blind me to the fact that other questions are calling imperatively for solution...