Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press conference next morning, the President put on a vigorous act, a stern lecture on the need for judiciary reform. He was severe with the Supreme Court. It had left important New Deal cases undecided. It had refused to prevent the suit of 19 utilities against TVA from going to trial in the lower courts. It had granted appeals on two suits against PWA power loans to municipalities, thereby keeping $50,000,000 of such loans tied up. It had refused the Government's request to allow Electric Bond & Share's challenge of the Public Utility Holding Company...
...Mother" Interstate Commerce Commission has "influence," some jurisdiction. But "Father" Post Office-by control of the airmail subsidy-has the whip-hand. "Mother" I.C.C. would like to let the growing business expand in healthy exuberance. "Father" Post Office, remembering the airmail scandal, treats the airlines like boys in a reform school...
...Illinois companies. Biggest of these, and third or fourth biggest insurance crash of the Depression, was Illinois Life, which had $150,000,000 in policies outstanding when the siphoning of Chicago's Hotelmen Stevens finally broke it (TIME, Dec. 5, 1932). The resulting yells of dismay brought swift reform in Governor Horner's first term...
Rabbis. Two hundred members of the world's largest rabbinical assembly, the Central Conference of American Rabbis (Reform Jews), also met last week in Columbus, exchanged greetings with the Presbyterians. Rabbi Samuel Marcus Gup told the Christians: "The world needs just this sort of demonstration in which you and we are taking part today...
Succeeding the tightening of the admission requirements with a revision of the course of study in the Law School, he faculty committee has accomplished a work of brilliant reform. The telescoping of the basic principles and cases of law into the first two years and the allowing of more flexibility in choice of subjects to third-year students are two new policies that will show the individual at an early date the various fields of specialization open to him and give the opportunity for original work in one particular field. Each man will be encouraged to select a course containing...