Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engrossing questions of its permanent literary value and of its probable influence and significance were as open to controversy as before. Less crowded with incidents than preceding volumes, The World from Below deals primarily with the dilemma of Jean Jerphanion, keen, ambitious, radical student whose desire to reform the world and prevent war is thwarted by his inability to find a political group or a party in whose sincerity and effectiveness he can believe. He moves first toward the Socialists, but is repelled by their callow optimism, learns of the existence of a mysterious secret society that may plot...
...popular suspicion. "The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant," Henry Adams wrote, "was alone enough to upset Darwin." Corruption, bribery and precedence given measures for party expediency characterized his administrations, which were historically important in a negative sense, in that they gave a powerful impetus to reform, bred a widespread cynicism for democratic government, effectively discouraged able and conscientious men from seeking political careers...
...great specialist on precisely this issue which is India's economic crux. He delved into all its aspects for two years (1926-28) as Chairman of the Royal Commission on Indian Agriculture. Both Houses of Parliament then appointed him Chairman of their Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform (1933-35), which to all intents and purposes wrote India's new Constitution...
...seeming too much like President Hoover, Canada's stuffy, rich and pious Premier Richard Bedford Bennett long ago announced a "New Deal" (TIME, Jan. 14). Last week his enemies set out to defeat him for being too much like President Roosevelt. Flaying the New Deal shibboleth of Reform-before-Recovery, the Premier's bitter rival, onetime Canadian Premier William Lyon MacKenzie King launched his Liberal Party's electioneering campaign with a radio speech in which he keynoted "Recovery Ahead of Reform...
Said Mr. King, "Mr. Bennett has declared that recovery must certainly follow social reform. The truth is that economic recovery is the only sure foundation for the successful establishment and continuous operation of social services. To seek to erect an ambitious program of social services on a stationary or diminishing national income is like building a house upon the sands...