Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 30) Fascist deputies, shrieking like wild Indians, dragged a Communist, Signor Maffi, from the Chamber by the hair of his beard. To that arch-stickler for authority, Premier Benito Mussolini, such doings have long seemed intolerable. Last week the cables carried news of a "reform" so ingenious that its high-handedness was passed over in a gale of appreciative laughter...
...Does its editorial policy strive to express the beliefs of the undergraduates, so far as they can be ascertained; or is it merely the opinion of its editors as individuals? If it is the latter, you are entirely justified in continuing to advocate your "light wines and beer" football reform. But should it be the former I suggest you change your policy and start working for a bigger stadium so that when the present undergraduates become alumni they can be sure of at least two tickets to the games. Kenneth S. Conkey...
...shelter, treatment, and discipline of physical, mental, and moral "lame ducks"; a species of sanatorium or reform school for young people who are "too much" for busy, lazy, or incompetent parents or guardians...
...freely asserted that all parties ran more or less amuck over the tariff, and forced into the background the important issues of: 1) Senate reform. 2) Tax reforms. 3) Immigration. 4) Transportation. Since "the will of the electorate" is now an obscure oracle on all of these important questions of Government policy, it is certain that there will soon be much reading between the votes by Canadian statesmen...
...Osborn became very much interested in the prison situation and in 1913 he was appointed chairman of the New York Commission on Prison Reform. A year later he was made warden of Sing Sing...