Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON--The Supreme Court today unanimously upheld constitutionality of the Wages and Hours Law, key New Deal reform which established minimum wages and maximum hours for millions of American workers...
Many a citizen in the past three years has wanted to reform the reforms of the New Deal, to install standards of judicial fair play in the reform agencies. First effort to reform the reformers was the defunct Logan-Walter bill (for legal tests of administrative rulings), which might have thrown so much sand in the gears that nearly all New Deal agencies would have ground to a halt. In vetoing the bill, President Roosevelt reminded Congress that his Attorney General's committee had been working for two years on the same question, had still to report...
...York Times hailed the Acheson report as a "landmark in the history of administrative reform." The Senate's Judiciary Committee went to work on these reports at once...
...storm & strife of what Mexicans still refer to as "the revolution"-a confused and confusing mixture of banditry, adobe-hut Marxism, nationalism and agrarian reform which has been seething for 30 years-rose three great revolutionary artists. Their lurid propaganda paintings (reaching Mexico's illiterate peons far more effectively than printed words) covered walls from Nuevo Leon to Yucatan and revived the art of fresco painting on a scale unequaled since the Italian Renaissance. The three: stocky, effusive Diego Rivera; grim, brooding José Clemente Orozco; pallid, green-eyed, conspiratorial David Alfaro Siquieros...
...Government, this did not make much sense. Even less sense was made by Bible Bill Aberhart, who wanted the Dominion to stay out of provincial affairs altogether but to underwrite Alberta's debt. By this time it was clear to everybody that three politicians had effectively scuttled the reform...