Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author Wells been firmly pressed into the national service. Pity or not, at 70* H. G. Wells remains what he has always been-a cheerful chider of human shortcomings, with one exuberant eye cocked on his fellow Englishmen. Last week he made headlines with his latest proposals to reform education (see p. 44). And last week he published his 76th book...
...Tecumseh Okla., the State Training (reform) School for Girls last month gave for 38 honor inmates a dance to which selected young men were invited. During the evening Hercule Cook, 21, a store clerk met and renewed his interest in Evelyn Steel, 17, a friend he had not seen for two years. Last week in the honor cottage of the institution, they were married and Mrs. Cook was paroled to Mr. Cook...
...suddenly came the moment the Senate has been waiting for since last Feb. 5 when the President called for Court Reform, the moment that meant the final decision in the bitterest legislative battle of a decade. In an instant, the Senate was in an uproar. Loudest voice in the tumult of shouts and laughter was Pennsylvania's Guffey, last-ditch supporter of the President's demand for more Justices, slamming his desk with the palm of his hand to get attention and crying, "Mr. President, Mr. President, I want to be recorded as voting against this Bill...
...Supreme Court had invaded the legislative field. The Court reform proposal had, for the time being at least, forced it to retreat. Something had been accomplished. If it should prove temporary, something more would certainly have to be done...
...those arms of the Federal Government which are so confusing to immigrants and children, fitting nowhere into the neat scheme of legislative, executive and judicial functions. 'Like most of the big independent boards and bureaus, FTC exercises all three functions at once. Founded during another reform era - Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom - FTC is charged with 1) prevention °i unfair competition, 2) enforcement of certain sections of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act, including the 1936 amendment known as the Robinson-Patman Act. It also has broad investigatory powers. Most famed FTC investigation was the eight-year probe...