Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...list of institutions Americans think are "most in need of reform," the FORTUNE Quarterly Survey this week put labor unions first. Reforming unions was twice as important as reforming public utilities or stock exchanges, ten times as important as reforming the Supreme Court, even 35.6% of factory labor put union reform first. Among executives, 52.9% put it out in front...
Died. Edward Mandell House, 79, confidential adviser to Woodrow Wilson; of old age; in Manhattan. "Colonel" House was author of an anonymous novel, Philip Deu: Administrator, published in 1912 about the time he made Wilson's acquaintance. It proposed many governmental reforms, which helped cement their friendship. Not reform but international diplomacy was their most binding tie. From 1914 on House commuted to Europe as Wilson's private emissary to statesmen and kings, trying first to prevent the World War, then to bring peace. In 1916 he was consulting strategist of the he-kept...
...sound bill and an essential one; every other President has tried to reform the executive branch, and none of them have gotten to first base," William Y. Elliott, professor of Government and a member of the President's Business Advisory Council said yesterday as he discussed the Byrnes Bill in an interview...
...against "dictatorship" which is being raised over the measure in certain quarters, the author of "The Need for Constitutional Reform" explained as essentially an expression of an anti-Roosevelt reaction, not of real animosity to the Bill...
...those who take the contemporary U. S. hard is young Manhattan Poet Muriel Rukeyser. Living in the nation's richest city, she is pinched by a sense of waste: a waste of spirit matching a material waste. To remedy the latter she counts on radical reform, if not revolution; to remedy the former she counts on mental and emotional continence. To help remedy both at once she writes poems that are at once radical and continent...