Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Young Conservatives tonight adopted a new name, "The Independents" as an indication that as a group they had launched a reform in policy and a reorganization on a democratic basis. Archibald Roosevelt '40 was elected Chairman of the Policy Committee; Francis R. King '39 of the Publicity Committee; Malcolm Jonna '39 of the Membership Committee; and Robert Homans '40 of the Finance Committee. The new constitution was passed, providing for an opportunity for all who join to work on committees by next year. Their aim is to offer students favoring the present system of free private enterprise a chance...
With Dean Leighton's 1938 memorandum, Freshman advising in Harvard has at last been recognized as an integral part of its teaching. Praise for this latest reform should be divided between P.B.H., President Conant, Dean Leighton, and other officials, all of whom contributed to its enactment. No more will the service, which eighty-four tutors, instructors, and proctors were supposed to render, be gratuitous; no longer can charges of incompetence be based on lack of time. Now the head and tail of a worm that would spoil any theoretical apple have been destroyed. By no means, however, is the problem...
Westernization. The King of Kings combines his knowledge of time-honored Iranian political methods with a passion for reform and an incorrigible interest in blue prints. Despiser of meddling, dictating European governments, he nevertheless admires Western habits and dress, Western technical achievements. Just as Kamal Atatürk had ordained in Turkey a few years before, Reza Shah Pahlavi ordered jail sentences for turban-wearers, forbade veils for Iranian women. Robed, turbaned mullahs were obliged to carry licenses. The Iranian habit of contracting temporary marriages, sanctioned by the Shiah sect of Mohammedanism, was so curtailed by the Shah that polygamy...
Once healthy, abstemious Shah Reza considered outlawing opium smoking, but factors other than reform weighed heavily. Important was the fact that an estimated half of the adult population smokes opium, that it is used as solace for the famine victim, to quiet crying babies and pleading children, to deaden the pain of a disease-ridden population largely unserved by doctors or hospitals, as well as for sheer pleasure. More important was that the opium trade, transported by camel caravan into Russia, then carried over the Tran-siberian Railroad to China by the obliging Soviets, accounted for more than half...
...nation have been focussed on the new Supreme Court Building on Capitol Hill throughout the past twelve months. The "Nine Old Men" formed one of the last barriers of protection to the country's property-holding, minority, and were relentlessly attacked by a large block of public opinion. Rooseveltian reform was attempted and defeated...