Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican Vice President appeared on a platform with a Democratic Senator who will seek reelection in 1926. Mr. Dawes spoke in praise of Senate rule which would permit a majority to close debate. Then, turning benignantly to Mr. Oscar W. Underwood: "The leading proponent of this great reform is Senator Underwood, who has been for years a standard-bearer in a courageous fight for the reform of the Senate rules on the floor of the Senate itself...
...Reform Party of New Zealand, of which the late Premier W. F. Massey was for so long the leader (TIME, May 18), elected Minister of Railways J. G. Coates Premier of New Zealand and leader of the Party. There was talk of a fusion between the Liberal and Reform Parties, which, if it took place, would give the welded party an absolute instead of a relative majority...
...professional classes also against the Communists. " . . . I admit that Russia has evolved a magnificent propaganda machine and believe Russian propaganda will become more intense as the failure of Communism becomes more pronounced." ¶By a vote of 160 to 28 the Senate passed Premier Mussolini's Army Reform bill, under which the Chief of the Army General Staff is given power to decide national defence questions. Admiral Thaon di Revel, ex-Minister of Marine, argued that coordination and not subordination of the Navy was required in dealing with defence policies. ¶The Senate approved an appropriation...
...view of this record it is hardly astonishing that the radical change in the constitution of the Council which was effected last year aroused little enthusiasm among undergraduates. The report issued last night, however, indicates conclusively that the pessimism which greeted that reform has not been justified. The new machinery has worked well and efficiently. The list of actual accomplishments is long enough to prove that there is a real place for this form of student organization in the College. The reforms brought about in the student employment office are alone sufficient to justify the year's labor...
...transpired, last week, however, that the General has succeeded in amalgamating three parties: Seiyukai, Kakushin (Reform) Club, Chuseikai, which gives him 150 seats and raises the new Party second in strength to the Kenseikai with 159 seats...