Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extend credit and we shall continue to do that. But we feel that it is a discrimination against the cash customer and the customer who meets his obligations promptly to assess them part of the cost of maintaining the credit structure. ... It is time someone undertook this much-needed reform...
...back as the Crimean and Japanese Wars the government had lost prestige at home and abroad, but demands for reform were met with more systematic repression, until by 1917 the Tsar could scarcely find support outside the ranks of the nobility. The livest sections of Author Chamberlin's history are to be found in his descriptions of the collapse of the Romanov autocracy, "one of the most leaderless, spontaneous, anonymous revolutions of all time," and of the hourly dissolution of the monarchy that suddenly fell apart like a gigantic One-Hoss Shay. Again & again Author Chamberlin introduces incidents...
...bill may be passed. That work relief was finally enacted as the President wanted it was largely due to Vice President Garner's advice to the bill's managers to withdraw it from the floor when it was blocked by the McCarran prevailing wage amendment, reform their lines in committee for a second and successful drive...
...accrue from creating at least some few of the giants by from within. Aside from the patently mechanized deficiencies of so many of the larger science courses, the callous, conveyor-belt system of teaching, and the bedraggled mentalities of their overworked instructors, no single issue requires so acid a reform as the rapidly strengthening custom of using up men rather than generating scientists...
...sixth year of the so-called depression, and the 25 months of strenuous effort under the New Deal to reform the system has only proved that it is beyond reform. . . . The conviction grows, therefore, that Capitalism must be discarded and a planned Christian economy be established...