Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...movement on to amend the Senate rules so as to abolish filibustering, whereby a " small group of wilful men" can talk an important bill to death at the end of a session. The failure of the Subsidy Bill through filibustering has given a new impetus to the reform...
Mussolini has approved the reform program for Italian education which proposes to encourage initiative, create a sense of individual responsibility, and nurtures the cult of national and religious traditions. The schools are to be humanistic. The universities are to be purely scientific and not professional. French will no longer be synonymous for " modern languages...
...last month the editorial and communication column of the Yale 'News' has been the no-man's land in the struggle between the reformists and their more conservative opponents, with the "News" itself leading the reform campaign. Its platform is the abolition of compulsory chapel and the bestowal of unlimited cuts on those of high scholarship. One feature of this campaign was a straw vote which showed undergraduate opinion to be decisively in support of the proposed reforms...
...Pollock is well known as a dramatic critic, as an author of many books, as well as a writer of plays. Social reform has been the purpose of many of these plays...
...surprising feature of this reform bill is the fact that nearly all government officials, with the exception of President Harding, are in favor of it. And the newspapers and weekly journals throughout the country have pledged themselves to suppor ill. There is reason to hope for the bill's ratification as a Constitutional Amendment before the close of the year. Of course, its passage will shorten the terms of many Senators and Representatives when it first goes into effect. But this is a minor consideration. It will more than compensate to have the President start his term of office with...