Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reform in the United States had been long overdue in the postwar years, and no responsible politician would try to set the clock back. It is equally dangerous and foolhardy to attack the agencies of the republic because they have been so long misused. Governor Landon shares a will to reform with a respect for orderly and constitutional government. After the events of the past four years the American electorate should welcome such a combination...
...Linlithgow, a banker whose hobby is agriculture, minutely traveled over India for almost three years as Chairman of the Royal Commission on Agriculture in India (1926-28). Because of his aloofness from partisan politics he was made Chairman of Parliament's Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform (1933) and he and Sir Samuel Hoare, then Secretary of State for India, are together responsible for drafting and carrying through Parliament against brilliant die-hard Tory opposition the present new Indian Constitution, famed "Longest Bill ever to pass the Mother of Parliaments" (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935 et ante...
...thrown to him by the New Deal revelers. Here is a prime reason for every farmer and every other New York tax payer to line up behind the Republican aspirants, who show, by their nomination of a Supreme Court Justice, real sincerity in the interest of fairness and reform...
...seems highly unfortunate that the reform so recently carried into effect in Government I should have been delayed until the damage of seriously reduced enrollment has been done. Past years of long and highly detailed assignments and generally rough sledding through the myriad details of American government have left their stamp, a Freshman have an instinctive fear of enrolling in this basically worthwhile course. Their attitude is equally founded on both common hearsay and what has been, in the past, the truth...
...does not seem that Mr. Lippmann had cut by 1935 any limbs on which he had parched in 1933. He grows less enthusiastic about the Roosevelt regime, it is true; he wishes the President would at last make complete statements of his reform program and of his budget policy; but he does not reverse himself on fundamental questions of executive power or economic policy. Once Mr. Lippmann favored the League of Nations-- that was long ago, in the hopeful twenties. Now he swallows without regret the Senate's rejection of the World Court, and sees withdrawal from European entanglements...