Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recall was part of the state reform movement which began during Roosevelt's regime. To dat, more than half of the states west of the Mississippi have adopted the recall. This piece of political machinery provides that when a certain percentage of the voters of a state sign a petition charging an official (governor, judge, etc.) with violation of his oath of office, there shall be an election held within from 20 to 90 days to oust or support the official in question...
...everyone knows, the international tariff reform most desired by businessmen is the stabilization of tariff schedules. At present they are jumped and lowered so frequently by many of the minor European states that traders find their dealings menaced by uncertainties not unlike those encountered when national currencies are fluctuating rapidly. Instances have occurred in which minor European states have deliberately jumped or lowered their tariffs on the occasion of a single large shipment across their frontiers, readjusting the tariff scale again when the shipment had passed. If such sharp practice could be eliminated and the attitude of tariff barriers fixed...
...mean to argue that there is not often too much minute study--too much philological digging of ditches, into which many of the inexpert fall, and are buried. There may be too much. But reform comes best from within. "Liberty" is not a magazine, but an intrinsic conception. The "What Price Glory" of graduate scholarship will be written in its own due time by a scholar (and there are many such) who possess that conception. F. I. Carpenter '24. October 29th...
...method, in the early stages of any reform, is not so easily influenced as the end. The CRIMSON can only hope that in some way the end, better eating conditions, can be attained. The method must remain for those expert in such matters to delineate...
...visiting lecturer has spoken on subjects of social reform, not only in this country, but also in Europe, and one of his speaking tours carried him around the world. During the World War he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel and at the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, was sent there on the American Red Cross Commission. In 1917 he succeeded Colonel W. B. Thompson as commander of the relief forces...