Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when he took the NRA--one measure ruled out unanimously by the Supreme Court--as his starting point. It would seem to be a jealous cleaving to hasty, ill-advised past action and all its implications. Now the time is ripe for its antithesis, carefully, intelligently, and constitutionally planned reform. If the federal government cannot find a present basis for change--and all avenues are not yet closed--it can propose new law by the regular process of amendment. Then and then only will the reforms receive thorough consideration, only then will they be practicable, only then will they stick...
...Chang thus demanded vengeance in the form of war and by inference the restitution of his inheritance. Any not-too-well cured dope addict might have had this scarcely brilliant idea, but what about Reform No. 1 ? Who put pro-Red ideas into the noodle of the Kidnapper? Old Chang, when he held Peiping (TIME, June 27, 1927 et seq.) indulged his habit of doing something so fantastic that today only Adolf Hitler does it: he caused the heads of Communists to be actually chopped off and "roll in the sand." Old Chang's executioner with his great broad...
Steelman Ernest Tener Weir, also throbbing with the spirit of reform, spoke warmly if tritely for redistribution of wealth: "Demand can be increased not only by increase in total national income, but also by distribution of the increase through the whole population. . . . Wage increases or investment returns that are paid solely through price increases are only apparent gains. ... It is probable that work on this problem will indicate that special attention should be given the low-income groups. This would have human value because these groups are most in need...
...father-architect struggling for a living while his well-to-do wife cavorts in Florida, and you have a slightly different situation. Both the devil and the sissy are the pert, Fauntleroy-like Freddie Bartholomew, who distinguishes himself above his older colleagues, where acting is required. In places the reform story of the son of an executed murderer and the son of a voluble A.E.F. veteran who made "the world safe for democracy," drags. It is maudlin to hear the judge in the juvenile court make friends with the boys, suspected of a burglary, by telling them the devil failed...
...Such a reform by faculty members interested in the advancement of American literature at Harvard promises much for the future. It is to be hoped this simple step forward will lead to more improvements along the same lines and that some day American literature may become a department in its own right, as important as that of English literature...