Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what he calls 'the more abundant life' who orders the destruction of food while millions of his fellow-countrymen are undernourished. A great preacher of free speech who threatened the political ruin of the Senator who for the sake of principle opposed his Supreme Court 'reform.' A bitter critic of bureaucracy who has created so many bureaux that Washington cannot contain them. A stern advocate of economy who has spent more money than any President in the history of the United States...
...long been known that the Marshall Field retail business lost money only once, in 1932, that what had dragged the company deeply into the red was its huge wholesale business. Chairman McKinsey's first reform was to lop off the wholesale business entirely, along with 1,600 employes. This was an eminently smart move, as was also his reorganization of Chicago's Merchandise Mart, each of whose first 19 floors contains six acres of floor space. The Mart has still to make money but McKinsey management rented...
There were only a few plausible reasons why this man of multiple talents should be picked for and accept the job of Ambassador to Britain. One was that in his role as a representative of Business sense within a reform administration, he had lost out, or felt he had lost out, and taken the opportunity to put the Atlantic between him and the grievous worries of the New Deal beset by a new depression. Another was that besides the job of negotiating the details of a reciprocal trade treaty with Britain, Franklin Roosevelt faces major developments of U.S. foreign policy...
...short, yelling chase down an alley and a Chinese policeman shot dead a man who was, said the police marksman, the man who threw the grenade. At first he was called a Korean, then a Chinese. His name did not come out last week. Before the parade could reform there occurred another, equally fatalistic demonstration. A Chinese patriot, who had watched the bomb explode, gave a shrill cry: "Long live the Kuomintang!" (Government Party), and committed suicide by leaping off the top of a tall building...
...Faces-Even at this unseasonable period, however, the seeds of reform were sprouting within N.A.M. And the sprouts were diligently cultivated by a group of men who, if not Reds, were progressive enough to realize that times had changed since the days of William McKinley. Among the flowing stocks, wing collars and morning coats of the N.A.M. veterans, they were distinctly new faces. Significantly, most of them had made their public names since 1929. Typical of the N.A.M. "progressives" are men like President Lewis H. Brown of Johns-Manville Corp., Henning Webb Prentis Jr. of Armstrong Cork, Tobaccoman Williams, Chairman...