Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...compilation by the Civil Service Reform League last week found that 99,000 Democrats in 17 States will be turned out of political jobs by victorious Republicans. In two States (California, Maryland) 9,700 Republicans were turned out by victorious Democrats. Mr. Garner was unimpressed by an election chart, said to have been prepared by the Jurizarlat. which purported to show that the New Deal's set-backs in November were largely local defeats, hinging on local issues, scandals, personalities...
Throughout the entire address the theme was his conviction that the world's ruling classes prefer Fascism to social reform. With reference to this he stated "If the masses are content to be trampled upon, there will be no Fascism...
...being Red, decided that Frederick Robinson lacked "the human qualities" needed by a college president, asked the Board of Higher Education to do something about it. Still Tammany-controlled, the board refused to oust him. But last June, as the result of new appointments to the board by reform Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, Dr. Robinson's supporters were outnumbered. He applied for a sabbatical year. The college calmed, today is as peaceful as a vacated battle field. When Dr. Robinson offered his resignation last week, with one hand the board snapped it up, with the other gratefully applauded his "long...
Some other unusual subjects of pieces which Miss Tisdale has run across include "The Mariners' Family Industrial Society"; "The New England Moral Reform Society"; "The Society for the Relief of Indigent Old Men"; and "The Society for the Diffusion of Christian and General Knowledge among the Chinese...
...Serbs, 6,500,000 strong, had always ruled, intended to continue to rule. The 4,000,000 hardworking, stubborn Croats, used to their own local Diet at Zagreb even under the Habsburgs, felt they were a repressed minority, agitated for local autonomy, civil rights, the secret ballot, constitutional reform. The Slovenes, 1,000,000 of them, clustered up near the old Austrian border, shrewdly bargained for political favors. Thrown in also were 500,000 potentially troublesome Germans, 440,000 difficult Magyars, tens of thousands of White Russian exiles. The majority of Serbs and Montenegrans (now pretty much merged) are Serb...