Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...endowed with the same political capacity, why let any one stay in office very long? Our reluctance to make use of experts in any branch of public administration is in large measure a by-product of this national obsession. The most formidable obstacle in the path of civil service reform is not the avarice of the politician. It is the deep-seated popular conviction that any able-bodied citizen, whatever his competence or lack of it, has an equal and indefeasible right to a place on the public pay-roll...
...gloom be justified or not, it is a needed palliative for national over-confidence. Minority politicians may assert that the country is decadent, but they always imply that the remedy is simply to place them in power. Individual critics may make despondent observations, but usually they urge a pet reform to set the world aright. Even cynics of the Mencken variety who see little virtue in mankind alleviate the sting of their sneers by a tacit admission that their circle is not beyond saving...
...with a scrubby Vandyke beard, added half a cent last week to the value of the lira.* No prestidigitator, Finance Minister Count Volpi performed this modern alchemy by obtaining Premier Mussolini's assent to a hard-headed Cabinet decree enforcing deflation of the lira. So drastic is this reform that Signor Grandi, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, commented...
...that market for American wage earners and producers, and that to elect a Democratic senate or house would be a step in the direction of letting down the bars for foreign cheap labor competition in our market." The Democrats, being the party out of office, naturally run on a reform platform and "Slush" is their war cry, even out in Indiana where the Reed Senatorial Committee has been asked to investigate their primaries. Representative Oldfield last week journeyed to Allentown, Pa., where Democracy is fighting desperately to elect to the U. S. Senatorship, William B. Wilson, onetime (1913-21) Secretary...
Bank Fund. The final fiscal reform measure for which M. Poincaré secured passage last week authorized the Bank of France to create by the purchase of foreign currencies a non-fluctuating monetary reserve for manipulation in defense of the franc. Premier Poincaré declared roundly before the Senate: "The franc has reached a point where it is much below its real value. The Bank of France bills are guaranteed in such a manner as to render unjustified the absurd present rate of the franc in international exchange...