Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country was given a new Cabinet. Kindly old President Wilhelm Miklas gave little "Millimetternich" (Dollfuss) carte blanche to reform the Government, which was promptly reshuffled to the following lineup...
...graft. The resultant reform movement sent Tammany Boss Richard Croker scurrying to exile in Ireland, by huge majorities elected William L. Strong mayor, made Theodore Roosevelt commissioner of police. Died. Robert Augustus Chesebrough. 96, retired president of Chesebrough Manufacturing Co., inventor of vaseline, a founder of the New York Real Estate Board; of old age; in Spring Lake...
...President Lowell was among the first to expect him to make them. It is practically taken for granted that he will stand a few customs or even departments on their heads. But the point is that he has not by any means been picked by a few zealous reformers to teach Harvard a blue eagle-like loop-the-loop, but has been selected, as it were, almost by Lowell himself to keep alive Harvard's cherished "tradition of change." With such a tradition firmly entrenched, it is inconceivable that any sensational reform should take place, or one which would...
Just before the New Jersey Legislature adjourned in June it waded around a mass of legislative trivialities to pass an important bill authorizing the Governor to appoint a State Fiscal Commissioner. The office had been recommended as part of the reform program offered by Princeton's Professor (now President) Harold Willis Dodds, whom Governor Moore had invited to survey the State Government (TIME, July 3). By the terms of the Princeton Plan, the Fiscal Commissioner was to be a dictator of the State's finances, with power to suspend or withhold appropriations, reduce personnel. Last week Governor Moore...
...determination to reform Japan remains unchanged!" cried Prisoner Eitan Goto passionately. "I am prepared to die seven times, but I will" bomb seven times, if necessary, until the country is purified. I regret I caused trouble for the Emperor and disturbed public opinion, but I am prepared to die. I ask to be punished according...