Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ladies, wives of substantial, responsible businessmen, were earnestly parading the streets and highways in their family automobiles, blaring their horns steadily with large blue & white banners proclaiming that the 18th Amendment must be repealed. It was "National Repeal Week," sponsored by the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform of which Mrs. Sabin is national chairman, Mrs. Roosevelt campaign chief. After their horn-blowing motorcades, during which they were careful not to smoke cigarets in conservative districts, the suburban ladies returned to make streetcorner speeches patterned after Mrs. Sabin's radio address. Excerpts from the latter...
...which has such definite preconceived ideas? Can they affiliate with an organization which feels that "democracy under capitalism is a myth"? And can they affiliate with an organization which proposes to combat the short-sighted leadership and the false policies "of those organizations based upon a philosophy of social reform and pacifism...
...Student League, however, was born of the depression, among the students of our large city colleges where economic pressure on the undergraduates is strongest. Harvard has proved so far to be barren soil for this radical plant. The American university man is in general apathetic in activity of social reform, reconstruction, and revolution when compared to his less well padded European or Asiatic brother...
...Debated the bill by Virginia's Glass to revise and reform the national banking system (TIME, Feb. 8; April...
...display this week in the Lowell House Library are some of the books designed and illustrated by Mr. William A. Dwiggins of Boston, one of the foremost designers of fine books in this country. The most interesting volume is his recently published "Reform of the Currency," which has attracted wide attention and comment. In this book he flays not our fiscal system but the appearance of our bills. At the same time he offers suggestions for redesigning them. Other volumes of note are his Balzae's "Droll Stories," Poes "Tales," a charming little edition in two volumes of Daudet...