Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Facing enormous burdens, placed upon the country by the Experts' Plan as well as by increased domestic needs, the Government sought to raise an extra 7,000,000,000 gold marks by taxation. To do this the most thoroughgoing reform was necessary...
...British Commonwealth Labor Conference. Ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald, speaking on behalf of the British Labor Party, welcomed Labor delegates from Australia, Canada, India, Ireland (Free State and Ulster), Newfoundland, South Africa and the mandate of Palestine. To them he urged acceptance of a Commonwealth preference based not upon tariff reform but upon "large wholesale purchases by committees under Government control" which, presumably, would buy solely from the overseas British...
Take the case of Mrs. Winifred Mason Huck. Some two months ago, she visited with her friends Governor and Mrs. Victor A. Donahey of Ohio. The Governor, noted for his interest in prison reform, wished to find out about prison conditions for women. A friend charged Mrs. Huck with stealing his overcoat. She pleaded guilty, was sentenced to six months in jail. She spent three days in the Cleveland jail amid bummers, dope users and bad food (according to her account); then was sent with a Negress bootlegger to the prison at Marysville. There she lived with female murderers...
Charles G. Dawes, Vice President, and Knight errant for reform in the rules of the Senate, traveled into the fastnesses of New Hampshire, home of Senator George Higgins Moses, protagonist of the Senate rules as they are. At Manchester, he jousted in the lists, setting forth his arguments, many of which were rebuttals to his opponents' replies. This was the substance of his argument tor a strict cloture (closure) rule-i.e., a rule that would enable the Senate to stop debate in order to secure a prompt vote...
Among the advertisements there are two of particular interest to Harvard men: The Advocate promises to reform next year and the Lampoon apologies for its productions by saying that "There is always the chance that an embryo genius is lurking in Lampy's pages...