Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same note of blind optimism, almost pathologic in its character, pervades the entire Washington scene. President Roosevelt in his admirably phrased message to Congress refers to "those for whom recovery means a reform of many old methods, a permanent readjustment of many of our ways of thinking, and therefore of many of our social and economic arrangements." But the President makes no specific reference as to what general plan this "readjustment of our ways of thinking" are to take...
...answer the basic radical question of public ownership Much of the radical criticism of President Roosevelt, from the beginning of his administration, has been directed at his refusal to answer this question. Much of the conservative criticism has been directed at his obvious intention to carry out legislative reform which would be meaningless, because unsanctioned, unless he answered it in the affirmative. The tragedy of the President's position is that both of these criticisms are perfectly sound...
...President in the next few days will reveal to the country his financial plan for the American Government. Too much emphasis in recent weeks has been put on monetary reform--not enough on fiscal policy...
...foregoing remarks I have openly disregarded the authors' own disclaimer that they are talking only about recovery and not about reform. As Dr. Taylor appropriately remarks and as all the papers themselves show, the separation of recovery and reform in the present state of affairs is impossible. It has been my object to show how under the cover of devoting exclusive attention to recovery the authors have inevitably developed a bias toward reform as well--a bias which is of fundamental importance in influencing the judgment one may form of the economic and social policies of the Roosevelt Administration...
...Downright Judicial Blunder!" screamed a bulletin from the Nazi Party official news bureau. "We demand a fundamental reform of our judicial system. To avert another such decision German Justice must be purged of outworn, alien and liberal conceptions...