Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...often does, the League for Safeguarding the Fixity of the Sabbath Against Possible Encroachment by Calendar Reform, stiffened its back last week. Once again in the Press was news of the kind of change which L. S. F. S. A. P. E. C. R. is pledged to oppose to the death. Chile announced it is going to adopt a perpetual calendar, and in Dayton, Ohio the Federal Council of Churches opened its biennial meeting with the declaration that the great Christian churches of the world are now in substantial agreement concerning calendar reform...
...Association favors a twelve month year with equal quarters in which the first, fourth, seventh and tenth months would have 31 days, the rest 30 days, plus a Year-End Day and a Leap-Year Day. In 1931 the League of Nations, which on off days dabbles in calendar reform, sponsored a conference at which these two calendars were examined. Nothing much else was done...
...wrath of 31 years of police experience. He joined New York City's force at the bottom in 1903, suffered one Tammany slight and setback after another for his persistence in going after politically influential crooks. Big, grim, tough, rigidly honest, he got his chance when the LaGuardia reform administration took office...
Such was the sentence passed last spring by Director J. Edgar Hoover of the U. S. Department of Justice's Division of Investigation on Lester M. Gillis, 25. Since he was 13, pink-cheeked little Gillis had been in & out of reform school and prison as a smalltime automobile thief, hold-up man. bank robber. But he did not become a headline lawbreaker until last year when, under the name of George ("Baby Face") Nelson, he turned up in the gang of the late John Dillinger. There he won himself a reputation as a "crazy killer" with a paranoiac hatred...
...loaning to peasants of 20,000,000 pesos, of which 6,500,000 had been loaned to 1,200 peasant organizations at 8% by last week; 2) the spending of 15% of the Federal Government's budgetary outgo for education and 3.4% for public health; 3) reform of the Labor Code to insert social insurance in addition to the minimum wage recently decreed throughout Mexico of 1¼ pesos (42?) per day. Of this sum the National Revolutionary Party is proud, considering that peons by the million have long grubbed for less. To enforce even a 42? minimum will...