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Word: reformations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then after rehearsing his objectives in Court reform and repeating his argument that a constitutional amendment would be too slow, he demanded a fight to the finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: End of Strife | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

...reform, declares Socialist Blum, need not wait for social revolution, can be won "simply through progress in ideas about morality." Veering even more sharply from orthodox Marxist sex doctrine is his belief that, since the "upper and middle classes" control public opinion and show the highest sex illiteracy, education must begin at the top. And of this group, since its men are already groping along the right track, "it is upon girls . . . that I rely for carrying out the reform which I suggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Premier Blum's Sex System | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

...favor of abolishing child labor, that an amendment could not be written which "would say what we meant without saying what we didn't mean." 2) One of the President's chief arguments for the bill to enlarge the Supreme Court was that so simple a reform as the abolition of child labor could not be accomplished via a Constitutional amendment even in 13 years. Senator Vandenberg spent two months getting in touch with the opposition and finding out their objections to the 13-year-old proposal, which read: "The Congress shall have power to limit, regulate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Editing Job | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

...light fun, was actually a new low in its star's uneven career did not constitute news. What did constitute news about the picture-which distressingly exhibits Miss Davies as a stenographer who hides her good looks under a dark wig and glasses in order to reform a young novelist (Robert Montgomery) who has fallen in love with her -was that it may be the last occasion for such painfully insincere reviewing. Reported disappointed with box-office receipts of the pictures Cinemactress Davies has made since Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions moved to their studio from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 5, 1937 | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

Hanford praises general exams, maps tutorial reform in report...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lest We Forget . . . | 6/16/1937 | See Source »

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