Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past three years the five-day week (40 hours) has been steadily spreading through U. S. Industry as a voluntary reform. The American Federation of Labor agitated the movement in & out of season. The American Legion backed it with a nation-wide radio campaign. Progressive employers publicized their adoption of it (TIME, April 27, 1931; Oct. 24). Both major political parties endorsed it in their campaign platforms. President Hoover put it into practice in the Federal Government as an economy measure. Its whole purpose is to share and spread employment...
...President, silent on the matter, probably proposes to conduct the Tennessee development in such a manner that neither school of rugged individualists will be injured. But state socialism, in a form howsoever diluted, cannot be imposed on the American commercial structure without real basic reform. The Farm Relief Bill is a hoary example, but it still serves to illustrate that the importance of this issue is greater than the President seems to appreciate...
Beneath a pornographic picture of Betty Compton (TIME, Nov. 21, 1932) you write "The Maharajah is interested in reform" and in the article on same page you refer to Colonel Sir Shri Krishnaraja Wadiyar Bahadur, Maharajah of Mysore, and further state that the ex-Mayor of New York, Mr. J. J. Walker, was about to return the visit of the Maharajah. In TIME (Dec. 5) is a cut giving a photograph of the "Maharajah" and his friend...
...agricultural products. His jobs: Minister of the Interior, Minister of Industries, Minister to Italy, Special Ambassador to Argentina, member of the National Administrative Council. A year after his 1930 election he toured inland Uruguay, speaking out for a change in the Constitution, offering to resign the Presidency to hasten reform. Then he favored Switzerland's commission form of government or a chief executive with a Cabinet elected by Parliament. He warned Uruguayans strongly against a strong executive head like the U. S. President...
...fact that in the last mayoralty race some 262,649 New Yorkers took the trouble to write in his name on the ballot. This may well be encouraging to McKee's friends, but it cannot fail to be singularly discouraging to those who still hope for a real reform of the city government. McKee was for twenty > backing in the Bronx and Queens Democratic machine. While no one can reasonably object to the substitution of McKee's chubby face for O'Brien's anthropoidal features, the change would have no other importance. The city is offered a different deck...