Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since, as Lawyer Root said in his letter, served as a model for a vast amount of research. But only last week was it realized in high places that a public spirited layman was responsible. Only last week did Judge Olson declare: "No individual has contributed more toward court reform in the last 50 years than Mr. Ruggles...
...pungent as those for which his wife "Margot" is famous. Before him lay the resignation from the Liberal party of Sir Alfred Mond, with the added declaration that Sir Alfred will hereafter consider himself a Conservative, and the explanation that he has taken this action because the Land Tenure Reform scheme to which Mr. Lloyd George has pledged the Liberals (TIME, Dec. 12 et ante) amounts, in Sir Alfred's opinion, to "nationalization of agricultural lands. . . [to which] I am absolutely and unalterably opposed...
Although Japan's latest franchise law, just promulgated, barks back to the nineteenth century, the Reform Bills of 1832 and 1867, and the plebiscites of Napoleon III, it serves as a reminder that Japan still copies. She now has most of Europe's political features, a constitution, militarism, world-wide diplomacy, and universal suffrage. She has amply proved her descriptive trilogy, "adept, adopt, adapt...
Against moneyed power, the individual crusader for uncontrolled news can have little hope of success. Either he can enter on a lone attempt to reform the press, or, he can content himself with the laissez faire reflection that since interests are rich enough to control a paper, all sides are represented in the daily orgy of propaganda...
...Guermantes Way." As usual the translating is excellent, and the book is in many respects the most fascinating of this great series. In "Arrowsmith," Sinclair Lewis has produced his best but by no means his most popular novel. He seems to give promise of writing better and preaching reform less. "The Tale of Genji," translated from the twelfth century Japanese by Arthur Waley, tells with great charm and delicacy the story of a royal prince with some of the characteristics of a Don Juan. It is curious to find so old a story so new, so alive, and so modern...