Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reform of the House of Lords moved another step when Lord Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India, proposed that membership of the House be reduced from 700 to 300. The chief features of his proposal, which received considerable support...
...vital problem of transition between school and college still bulks large. Despite occasional flashes in the plan of reform, no vigorous constructive action has ameliorated the present crying need. Now is the time to hew out some new policy with which to deal with the inrush of next fall's Freshmen who may otherwise receive the usual laissez faire reception...
...Duke of Sutherland opened the question of the reform of the House.? He advocated that the House be invested with powers similar to those enjoyed before the passage of the famous Parliamentary Act of 1911 and declared that reform of the House was the only way to prevent revolutionary changes in the event of the Labor Party coming into power in the future. He warned their assembled lordships that they had their last chance of reform...
...Earl of Oxford and Asquith, who, as Premier H. H. Asquith, passed the Parliament Act depriving the House of Lords of its power, agreed that reform was necessary, but cautioned the House against "protecting the people against their own representatives...
Lord Chancellor Viscount Cave, replying for the Government, said that a Cabinet committee is to examine the matter with a view to introducing reform legislation, but said that nothing could be done before next year...