Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impeachment, uttered by a Republican. Meanwhile preparations for relief measures during the winter go by the board. It is doubtful if the spectacle enhances the prestige of "the greatest legislative body since the Roman Senate." Appeals to the efficiency of dictatorships, though superficial, indicate a pressing need for governmental reform...
...junta of twelve officers, the oldest of whom is 42, the youngest 18, took over the government, inaugurated Vice President General Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez as Chief of State. General Martinez, a model General, is not only an officer: he is a vegetarian, a temperance advocate, an authority on agricultural reform. Even so the U. S. State Department refused to recognize him last week. Within 48 hours after the revolution the only visible signs were gaping holes in the Presidential Palace and the fact that cautious motorists traveled about the streets with flags of truce on their radiators...
...divided into four new States with eight new Senators, he rammed through a bill to that end only to have it vetoed. Even now he still agitates for this change (TIME, May 26, 1930). But monster Texas, proud of its size, only laughs at him, thinks such a reform is one of Jack Garner's best jokes...
...pulpit is not an academic forum, nor is it a book review clinic. . . . Such an effort is a waste of time. . . . The pulpit is not a reform bureau. The gospel message is not primarily a reform message. . . . [Christ] came to save sinners, not to reform them. . . . Salvation is not by law, neither is it by works...
...bogeyman Napoleon faded from memory and young Reform lifted its head, old diehard Tory Wellington lost his popularity. Twice his windows were broken by a mob; on Waterloo's anniversary he was trailed home by hooting hoodlums. The Duke, impervious to mobs, merely thought the country was going to the dogs. But before he died at 83, public opinion had swung round again: he was universally respected and, as only a public character can be, beloved...