Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Landon's strength will influence the future strategy of the Democrats remains to be seen. If they do not deceive themselves, it will. It seemed to thoughtful people that the warlike note struck in Philadelphia, which could only be interpreted as the assurance of a continuance of Leftist reform, was unsound politically because the country was temporarily tired of reform. The Gallup poll provides impartial evidence to support the wisdom of that judgment...
...ruling class. Symbols of his good opinion of himself were the monocle in his cold, irritable eye, the invariable orchid in his buttonhole. He wrecked two parties to which he belonged, Gladstone's and Balfour's, and each time emerged greater than before. His platform was social reform for poor Englishmen, confederation and preferential tariffs for the Empire and, internationally, an understanding between Britain, the U. S. and Germany. Last week fell the 100th anniversary of Old Joe's birth, and the two sons, born to two mothers who were cousins, uprose to remind England of their...
...this point Chile relieved some tension by having her Geneva spokesman propose to "reform" the League of Nations: 1) in such a way that no matter what happens Chile would never have to join in either economic or military sanctions; 2) to bring non-members including Germany and Japan back into the League, presumably recognizing Japan's great land grab in China at this time...
...temporary succor to the Financial Oligarchy, obtained from the Regents of the Bank of France an overdraft of $10,000,000 on which to keep his Treasury going for the moment. Socialist Auriol said he will not take the franc off the gold standard, will not nationalize but only "reform" the Bank of France and will not fail to balance the Budget...
Often heard in fireside fulminations is the charge that the New Deal is deliberately and cunningly undermining the property rights of U. S. citizens. Last week a prime New Deal agency asked Congress for broad legislation not to weaken property rights but to strengthen them. The reform proposals were contained in another Securities & Exchange Commission report based upon Commissioner William Orville Douglas' diligent investigation of protective committees and reorganizations (TIME, May 18). Mr. Douglas concluded that U. S. investors had suffered woefully from irresponsible corporate trustees, legal representatives of scattered and inarticulate bondholders...