Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...able to hear him, not even these in the first rows who had been laced there because they were hard of hearing. Despite being understandable, Mr. Sunday was anything but inarticulate. Repeal, he says "will fill the streets with staggering, reeling, maudlin, stewing drunkards"; moreover, "you can no more reform a saloon than you can reform a pole-cat so it won't smell...
...vehemence was that he himself had sat down last summer with Manhattan bankers and arranged for loans and bond flotations to carry the city for four years. He felt that a simple reopening of the budget by the Legislature was all that was now needed. As to charter reform, he had already, in his annual message, recommended a charter commission composed of Alfred E. Smith, onetime Governor Nathan L. Miller, Nicholas Murray Butler, and Elder Statesman Elihu Root. To the Governor's proposals Mayor LaGuardia had a ready reply, which he delivered two days later with good humor...
...Simon rose on the wings of an Italian seaplane piloted by Ace Major Attilio Biseo, veteran of the Balbo flight to Chicago. Beside Sir John sat the Duke of San Vito, a secretary in Il Duce's Foreign Office. To discuss Dictator Mussolini's bold plan to "reform" the League of Nations (TIME, Dec. 18) Sir John had come from London, pausing to enjoy the holidays at Capri before getting to business...
...white men. We face the danger of a race war!" Since II Duce's personal prestige-his Italian "honor"-is involved in the success or failure of his plan to revamp the League of Nations, Sir John required all his suavity to arrange a graceful exit from Rome. "Reform of the League of Nations," said he, "can be interpreted to mean either strengthening the League or weakening the League. My personal view is that the problem can only be taken up with the purpose of strengthening the League and making it more efficient." This satisfied France, which can conceive...
...living and working; he should be glorified in poem and ballad, and should develop a tried and true clientele of drinkers hardy enough to withstand the ravages of excess. Fancy and phoney foreign liquors, and bottled in bond American whiskeys, are to be left to the effete, in the reform which I envisage, while the great mass of the drinkers of the country, deserting their bathtubs, are to "buy American," and patronize the old men of the mountain...