Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While I am an American citizen, I have many relations in England, and am in touch with British reactions very closely. My brother is a member of the Reform Club of London, where naturally he meets many of the most prominent British politicians. As to the emeralds, I should have added that Garrard's the jewelers who bought them from Princess Victoria, sent them to Cartier's in Paris, and it was actually Cartier's who made the sale, on behalf of Garrard's to King Edward. As I said before, these stones are very large...
...second problem deals with possible reform of college requirements in the direction of three year courses and creation of pre-law courses for undergraduates. For a law school of national scope, such as Harvard, almost all colleges would be forced to introduce such a reform...
Though no committee of Congress had yet begun hearings on it, the great debate on President Roosevelt's proposals to reform the Judiciary and, incidentally, to alter the Supreme Court, last week burst prematurely open in full Senate. First Tennessee's windy McKellar, then Arizona's courtly Ashurst, with interpolations by thunderous Majority Leader Robinson, shook the air with preliminary salvos. Reason: even before the historic Supreme Court Battle of 1937 began, the Administration was losing ground...
...stripped to its essentials, the bill became merely a means of attaining a temporary political end: of putting enough New Dealers on the Court to secure Franklin Roosevelt's present program from being declared unconstitutional. Most liberals wanted a lot more, not temporary political victory but permanent judicial reform to make it easier in the future for the Federal Government to take such social and economic steps as liberals may want...
...while the fields of concentration and the Littauer School take care of those professionally interested in government, the Guardian can perform a vital function, both within the college and outside, by catering to amateur interests. If radio talks on administrative reorganization, civil service reform, regulation of industry, and the like can engender a more intelligent attitude towards government in those who do not concentrate in political fields and in the public at large, the experiment of the embryonic publication deserves every aerial success...