Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Will Tell of Penal Reform...
...lecture tonight is on a topic that brought him into prominence before the war, when one of his articles describing life in the Penal Colony in French Guiana gained notice from the French government and led to agitation for reform of the terrible conditions which he said existed there. The war halted these attempts at reform, but now they have been resumed and may lead to the abolition of the colony. Colonel Furlong will tell of a trip, by cattle boat from Trinidad to the penal colony. On this trip, he stopped at Demarara, in British Guiana, and thence continued...
...time of assuming office, I formally announced as follows: I, Tuan Chi-jui, although without ability and undeserving, assume office as Chief Executive of the Republic of China. I swear that I will endeavor to consolidate the Republican Government, respect public opinion, and strive to bring about reform within the country and raise the nation's standing abroad. I swear the foregoing reverently...
Explanatory of the foregoing were statements, official and otherwise, issued by Tuan through his Foreign Minister, Tang Shao-yi. The gist of these was: "Reform within the country" would precede the Government's efforts to "raise the nation's standing abroad" (i.e. "equalize" China's treaties...
...ROMANTIC RISE OF A GREAT AMERICA-Russell H. Conwell-Hardy per ($2.00.) A trip from poverty throttled youth to wealthy age. John Wanamaker, pioneer retail merchant, was born in suburban Philadelphia in 1838. died in 1922. He was prominent in church and sunday scholl work. the Y.M.C.A., missionary enterprises, reform movements, life insurance, politics, the introduction of the automobile. He was Postmaster General in President Harrison's Cabinet...