Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...necessary. The Citizens' Committee of Passaic would like to see Albert Weisford out of the way, so they bellow "Communist" at him. Communist though he may have been; he keeps silent about it. He is a clever organizer rather than a demagog, a cynic rather than a blithering reform zealot. Yet on the platform he can twist the emotions of the masses with his vibrating voice, his puny, gesticulating hands, his restless pacing up and down...
...francs of new taxation by a Chamber vote of 324 to 110 (TIME, August 9) which the Senate confirmed last week, 250 to 13, M. Poincaré seized his opportunity to ride roughshod, informed the Deputies that they must now pass without amendments two more heroic measures of fiscal reform...
...centuries of Catholic penetration into Mexico the Roman Catholic Church, abetted by and abetting Spain, extinguished virtually all other religious cults before Mexico won independence of Spain in 1824. It remained for a full-blooded Mexican Indian, Benito Pablo Juarez -after whom Benito Mussolini was christened-to raise the "Reform War" of 1855-61, the pan-Mexican spirit of which was infused into the antiPapal constitution of 1857 and finally forged into the present constitution of 1917 which specifically declares: "Only a Mexican by birth may be a minister of any religious creed in Mexico." Juarez, while president, not only...
Year in, year out, for many a year, pleased citizens have contemplated lawyers' proposals for judicial reform. Other citizens have been vexed that the field for reform never lessened. Last week a familiar twa,ng was sounded in the annual meeting of the American Bar Association. Mayor Dever of Chicago decried prohibition. Onetime Bar-President Chester I. Long decried present methods of judicial procedure. Oscar Hallam of St. Paul decried paroles. Expert witnesses, insanity defense, Senator Thomas J. Walsh (who is holding up in the Senate a bill for simplification of procedure)-all were decried seriatim; Finally, the Association...
Coincident with these manifestations came reports of hard sledding encountered by Premier Bartel in securing the confidence of Parliament in the Pilsudski program of constitutional reform (TIME...