Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sympathized with the lonely plight of owl-eyed Emperor Henry was swart little President General Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez of El Salvador, a nation about as large as Maryland. President Martinez, a vegetarian, a teetotaller and an authority on agricultural reform, had been in office more than two years before the U. S. recognized him, knew only too well the penalties of nonrecognition. On Jan. 26 of this year, President Roosevelt was ready to admit the existence of President Martinez. Thirty-six days later President Martinez was ready to admit privily the existence of Emperor Kang Teh. But he apparently...
Conclusions. His tour finished. Correspondent Stowe decided that politically, economically and emotionally France stands where the U. S. did in 1932. There will be no revolution if and only if the universally admired Gaston Doumergue can stay in power and force real reform on the Chamber of Deputies. Fear of another war is seriously hampering the recovery of French industry. Frenchmen are hoarding coin because they fear that war will close the banks, destroy industries...
...with which the New Deal has so far been received and which makes it all but impossible to express unqualified approval or disapproval of its methods. The liberal who is repelled by quasi-regimentation of industry through codes may nevertheless be wholeheartedly in favor of such projects for social reform the abolition of child labor and unemployment insurance...
...Knowlton, the editor of the Educational department of the MacMillan Company. Citing the havoc which politicians, the public, and teachers themselves wreak upon schoolbooks by false economy and attempts to make texts conform to local or professional prejudices, Mr. Knowiton suggests very convincingly the need for a reform of his evil which has been a part of free education since its inception...
...that fascinating bandit, Pancho Villa. The flogging and tortures by which the Diaz regime kept the peons in subjection arouse the anger of Villa and inspired by Madero he opens revolt against the government. After much bloody fighting Madero is installed as President, but his program of social reform divides his ranks. Pascal, a treacherous general leads the opposition, and the counter revolution soon ends in the murder of Madero and the installation of a conservative government. Villa learns of the treachery and returns to Mexico at the head of his rejuvenated army of peons and bandits. Pascal is ousted...