Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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International Reform Federation...
Your issue of Jan. 11 paid me a compliment, but was not accurate in one respect. . . . t said . . . that I had retired [from the superintendency of the International Reform Federation] and failed to note that I had been elected to be President and that larger powers had been voted to the President than formerly to any President of the Federation...
...Line-Up. When copies of the President's message, with the proposed Judiciary-Reform Bill attached, were distributed in the House, opportunistic little Representative Maury Maverick of San Antonio, Tex. quickly tore off the mimeographed draft of the bill, signed his name to it and dropped it in the hopper. So doing he stole a march on other ardent New Dealers in Congress, most of whom were immensely pleased by the President's move. Newshawks who immediately made surveys of Congressional sentiment agreed that the bill would be passed without serious difficulty. Save for routine Republican objections, little...
...goin' to take Eunice away from me. They're a-sayin' the law-makin' men in Nashville is makin' a law sayin' my marriage ain't legal. They've scared Eunice to death talkin' about sendin' her to reform school. I'm that pestered I can't plant my tobacco crop nor git no work done. All I know is they ain't goin' to take Eunice away 'thout it's over my dead body." Eunice's mother-a grandmother at 33 -explained...
...While "the world almost stood still," Tsar Alexander and with him all hope of reform, was murdered in Russia. In Buffalo, N.Y. Mr. Rockefeller added another refinery to his booming little Standard...