Word: reforming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about America, but in England at present the average man-in-the-street, the floating vote as we call him, holds the balance between tradition and reform in British foreign policy...
Franklin Roosevelt, master of words, is allergic to certain words with which the press has ticketed his acts. He disliked "death sentence" when applied to his holding-company bill. He felt that "court-packing plan" was unjust to his attempted reform of the Federal judiciary. "Purge" he hated; it smacked of Stalin and Hitler. By last week a new word annoyed him: "appeasement," as applied to his big push to restore Business confidence. "Appeasement" sounded as though he had done something to Business for which he now sought to apologize...
...announced that U. S. national income might reach 70 billions this year, that he meant everything he said at Des Moines (TIME, March 6), that "Johnny Hanes and I have a substantial meeting of minds." Word even went round that arch-New Dealers suspected Harry Hopkins of selling out Reform in his eagerness for Recovery...
...business appeasement (see p. 11). Because of this John Garner has become to arch New Dealers a symbol of sabotage. They consider him a prairie politician whose archaic notions, plus popular veneration for long public service, accidentally make him the leader of reaction against six years of enlightened reform...
...this has a very definite moral. If Dartmouth--or Harvard--wishes to continue local reform at the expense of public relations, the chances of a successful drive should be carefully weighed. For it is absurd to create town-gown enmity without some sort of return for the sacrifice. So far it has been all sacrifice for Harvard this winter, as Plan E lies in the graveyard and town animosity has reached an all time high. The spectacle is sad; but, if it serves as an example and warning to Dartmouth, Harvard's suffering has not been entirely in vain...