Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passed by Congress; he held a long conference concerning it with Secretary Mellon; then carried it away for study during a week-end trip aboard the Mayflower. On returning he affixed his signature to the bill, condemning it at the same time as tax reduction but not tax reform. ¶Elihu Root called at the White House and was closeted with the Chief Executive. It was guessed that they discussed proposals for the U. S. entry into the World Court. ¶Mrs. Coolidge gave her third garden party in a heavy rainstorm. The party was held indoors...
...constitutional as well as political. M. Herriot, given a majority in the recent elections, urges the revolutionary proposal that the President's term end at his party's defeat. This leader of the strong Radical Party also recently outlined his political beliefs. "The corner stone of all fiscal reform is the income tax." "The formula for the future is cooperative production." "I cannot admit that the wage-contract represents the final form of labor bargain." The lengths to which the party may go is suggested by the threat of a leading member who said. "If I am returned...
...Reform. His Majesty announced that his Government would undertake reforms of civil, commercial and mercantile code, cede to private initiative certain state-owned enterprises...
...Henry is much more of a magistrate than a sociologist, or he would know that for one instantaneous success in an experiment such as his there are a hundred failures, and that the reform of an habitual criminal, in cases where reform is possible, is rarely accomplished in three months, or with no backslidings. An eminent criminologist has said that to change the outlook of one disposed to crime is many times more difficult after the first conviction than before. If Sir Henry could be moved to continue his interesting work, remembering to temper his mercy with common sense...
...turning from reform to letters, the Advocate has been fortunate enough to obtain verses from Mr. Damon and Mr. Hillyer, and a story from Mr. Boyce. Mr. Hillyer's verses ought never to fall of welcome where poetry is loved; Mr. Damon's two contributions are pleasantly and skilfully turned. Mr. Boyce's "The Trail Beyond", a dramatic story on the difficult theme of intense hate, would gain, we feel, from a simpler and more direct treatment. The effort to suggest the vortex of sensations in the hero's mind, sustained as this effort is from beginning to end, cannot...