Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this remarkable book Mrs. Thirkell gives to a Twentieth Century world which is itself hustling to a Coronation, an accurate interpretation of its great-grandparents, and their times. While society wept over the sentimentality of its men of letters, one alone among them was striving to reform the more ugly aspects of life. Dickens was indeed at work here to wield the powers at his command to raise the lower classes from the degradation and poverty which he knew so well. Not only does "Coronation Summer" paint a portrait of Victoria, her coronation, and her era, but it brings...
...Court decisions, Senate filibusters and Party splits. If the same thing should now happen to Franklin Roosevelt, he feared for U. S. democracy. Unmentioned but obvious point of Historian Dodd's epistolary essay was that the Senators should stand by the President on his plan of Supreme Court reform...
...predecessors having achieved Recovery and the New Deal being safely settled in power for another four years, the 75th Congress, elected last November, was slated to be a Reform Congress. It met Jan. 5 with full steam and a clear track. By last week the Senate had averaged less than three hours' work per day, meeting on only about half the available days. The House had done little better. Between them they had passed just two major measures-the Neutrality and Guffey Coal Acts-and both were revampings of earlier statutes. Even in the matter of routine appropriations they...
...Jews moved to protect whatever agunahs were in their flocks by permitting them in certain cases to obtain divorces. At that time the agunah question was also before the Orthodox rabbis who rule the largest segment of U. S. Jewry (the inconsiderable remainder, Reform Jews, divorce as they please). Last week at its 32nd annual convention in Atlantic City the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U. S. and Canada said its final say on the matter. The Union voted overwhelmingly "not to recede one iota" from the Orthodox position on the status of the lorn agunah...
Claiming to be the oldest prison reform group in the world, the oldest organized charity in the U. S., the Prison Society last week celebrated its 150th birthday with vesper services at Old Christ Church, with Bishop Francis Marion Taitt representing the Episcopal Church, President Ernst Philip Píatteicher the Lutheran Ministerium, Secretary William B. Harvey the Orthodox Friends...