Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poor man as to the rich. The poor man may not have the same exalted vision of the imperial destiny as the educated and the traveled man, but he does feel in his blood that the British Empire is something to be proud of. . . . He is a social reformer. He would call himself a Radical, and would not be greatly discomposed if someone called him a Socialist. He believes that every generation is an opportunity for making things better, and that there are conditions in this country crying aloud for reform...
...parliamentary system, which has no roots in the political nature of the people, is universally distrusted by those who seek reform. The representative assembly has been used by unrecognized politicians as a springboard to project them into the charmed circle of successful ringsters. The policies of the country are dictated by alternating clans, surviving from the old classification of nobles, who use the imperial throne as a shrouding curtain for their intrigues. But the most ominous political portent is not distrust in the obviously transplanted institution of parliament, but the total absence of any temperate party which looks...
Liberal. The Liberals start out by defining their position in the last Parliament, referring to the "Russian Blunder"(i.e., promising to guarantee a loan) ; it then deals with unemployment, housing, land, agriculture, coal and power, education, free trade, industrial peace, social insurance, prohibition, electoral reform, and ends: "The people have now a choice to make between three parties. It has an opportunity of putting in power a Liberal Government, which will pursue the path of peace, social reform, and national development, avoiding, on the one hand, unthinking resistance to progress, and, on the other hand, unbalanced experiments and impracticable schemes...
...elected last spring to the Board of Overseers of the University. Since 1916 he has been Justice of the Boston Juvenile Court. He is a widely quoted and well known authority on Juvenile delinquencies and is President of the Judge Raker Foundation for research in that field of reform work...
...never had a constitution to be reviewed or repudiated by any kind of a Supreme Court. Even the House of Lords is today subject to the will of the House of Commons, and Goldwin Smith well said that "in the last 300 years of English history no reform ever originated in the House of Lords"; and it is just as true that no reform ever originated in the Supreme Court of the United States but the progress of democracy and civilization has been held back by the Supreme Court's decisions in favor of property rights of man, woman...