Word: reforming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Calling for drastic reform of the present system, the second group of recommendations includes the election of department heads by all members of the department, and asks that elected departmental committees be set up for the purpose of "investigating and recommending men for appointment, promotion, or termination of appointment...
...first attack upon that fact was equally direct: "Is it not ... better to have a program of reform substantially completed than to have to look forward to important changes not begun? With the emphasis shifted from reform to recovery, this Administration is now determined to promote that recovery with all the vigor and power at its command...
...peroration, Recovery's apostle added Housing and Railroads to Utilities as fields in which the use of capital goods can be expanded now that the era of Reform is past...
...historians noted the emergence of a new flock of U. S. goats. These were lawyers, business and constitutional. Lawyers were given their turn as national goats-after Bankers, Businessmen, Tories and Publishers-by Harry Hopkins when he blamed them last week for adding to Business' uncertainty during the Reform period of the New Deal by their "shortsighted counsel"; again, when he chortled over how the utilities were finally told, by the U. S. Supreme Court, "that they [lawyers] did not know what they had been talking about" in questioning TVA's constitutionality...
...Institute's scientists conclude that Democracy, Fascism and Communism in their present forms contain so many frustrations that unless they reform, all three forms of society face the danger of popular revolt...