Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this the Crimson is in exactly the same position that Princeton was during the first year of Fritz Crisler's administration. The experience of the two colleges has proved that injuries and lack of attacking power must inevitably dog the course of any man who tries to reform a football outfit within the space of a single year...
...increasingly vague and general when it runs into post-War prosperity and depression. To characterize the early period Author Allen describes the Harriman-Hill battle over the Northern Pacific that created a panic in 1901; the collapse of the trust companies in 1907; the Pujo money investigation and the reform movement. His illustrations of post-War conditions include accounts of the Insull and Van Sweringen holding companies; the careers of Charles Edwin Mitchell, Albert Henry Wiggin, Amadeo Peter Giannini; the history of the banking collapse...
...spot that was once vulnerable has now undergone reform. A writer who began his career as a Sophomore was once forced to enter his field by the pathway of prose. It he were a poet, he had to climb off Pegasus' back and lead him. But now the elementary course (after prescribed Freshman English) is a twin entry. The prose men plod after Mr. Morrison along the shore. The poets whiz through the clouds in hot pursuit of Mr. G. R. Davis. And these facts should be enough to silence all dissenting tongues...
...these practices are those of laissez-faire. Because big Canadian firms, when Depression enabled them to slash wages, squeeze marginal producers and crush competitors, did all these things ruthlessly, Mr. Stevens raised a great howl, founded what he calls the Reconstruction Party. It offered voters their choice of mild reform measures to be carried out by the more sympathetic wing of the Old Gang...
...returns came in Reform Conservative Stevens was seen to have split and disorganized his party's vote, turning the expected defeat of Premier Bennett & friends into a massacre which left the Conservatives this week with the smallest representation they have had in the history of the Dominion...