Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early in the Century when Roosevelt I was jousting with Big Business, the idea of a Federal incorporation law was seriously pondered. But, as the nation grew richer, the subject of corporate reform grew less interesting. Last week, under Roosevelt II national charters were up again, this time in the sixth report of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee on their findings of the past three years. Said the Committee...
...this period when political, economic, and social institutions are being radically subjected to change and reform, it is important for the student of world affairs to examine these changes critically and analytically. It is safe to say that nothing stimulates such critical analysis as well as debating...
Fascism, social-fascism, and the alternative of the social revolution will be the topic of the seventh hour, while the final meeting will discuss the question of revolution versus reform, with regard to the Communist party and the Communist International. In addition, the Pseudo-Marxists will be explained...
...forth by administration supporters that the opposition party has nothing to offer place of the New Deal policies is admittedly true. To go further left is hardly possible, the stolid attitude of the twenties is thoroughly discredited, and the present administration has stolen most of the thunder of the reform and regulation advocates. Administration extravagance, despite the clamor raised about it, is a poor basis for a platform under present conditions...
...that they could take credit for having killed it. The Brooklyn Church and Mission Federation began circulating petitions against it. The American Protestant Defense League called it "immoral and degrading." The Society for the Prevention of Crime threatened to take legal action and Lawyer Samuel Untermyer said that two reform organizations had asked him to represent them against it in court. To Mayor LaGuardia went protests from the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, The Bronx Clergy Association and Liberal Episcopalian Dr. Walter Russell Bowie who wired: "It would be depth of unwisdom to give civic encouragement to that passion...