Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...These critics point out that the "P. M.'s" dilatory attitude during the general strike and coal strike cost the nation millions of pounds. More important, since the strike virtually nothing has been done to force the mine owners to reorganize their industry-the most badly needed reform in the country, by common consent...
...strictest of his reform rules was that the bank might loan no money unless fully covered by good collateral. The late Philip Danforth Armour† once sent word from the Chicago Stock Exchange that he wanted $100,000 at once. The young president returned word that he wanted collateral. Mr. Armour furnished it and valued President Mitchell for his stubborn consistency. Marshall Field also liked him and made him bank trustee of the Marshall Field estate...
Admiral Magruder's quarrel with the Secretary of the Navy brings to the public mind the similar difficulties of General Mitchell with the War Department. Both were crusaders for reform; both, by appealing their cases to the public, aroused the ire of their superiors; but there the resemblance ends. Mitchell advocated larger expenditures, and accused the Government of stinting the allowance for an adequate air delense: Magruder is on the side of economy, and accuses the authorities of inefficient use of the funds appropriated...
...Reform Era in Prussia," Professor Langer, Harvard...
Senator Walsh's speech on "Some issues of the 1928 Campaigns" will be given at 8 o'clock in the Faculty Room of the Union, and will be open to all members of the University. Mr. Walsh is now engaged in drafting eight legislative reform measures for presentation at the next session of Congress, and the principles of these may be introduced into his talk tonight...