Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps, however, Mr. Carroll no longer heeds the jingling of the guinea but merely contemplates reform. If he plans the replacement of the traditional shower by the more famous bath-tub, he is doomed to disappointment; champagne instead of water perhaps, but tubs instead of showers,--never. A possible novelty would seem to be the production of an athletic show in which the heroine did not invade the locker room in order to embrace the all-American fullback. Here is something worth considering, but it is to be feared that the author of so many Vanities will never neglect...
...service, a change which a letter in this column today deplores. Realizing that prevention of crime and delinquency, that improvement in standards among the poor, is the surest way of creating social stability, the intelligent have shown a wordy, but not ineffective interest in these matters. Agitation for permanent reform, for enlightened democracy has seemed more intelligent than the drops in the bucket of individual slumming. This attitude has been furthered, of course, by the blatant antics of "service" clubs and that business men who have found that piety pays...
...fearsome place, for a Democratic speech on the tariff. It was in Louisville, in the columns of his Courier-Journal, that the late Col. Henry Watterson (1842-1921) used to thunder about the tariff. It was Col. Watterson who called the Democratic party "the star-eyed goddess of tariff reform" and who in 1884 coined the oldtime phrase, "A tariff for revenue only," a phrase repeated in national Democratic platforms as late as 1920. Nominee Smith had the double problem of breaking away from the revenue-only tradition and of embracing the historically Republican principle of protection without losing political...
Settling to business, the Congress soon passed resolutions reaffirming the historic Free Trade policy of British Liberalism, and also re-endorsed the program of agrarian reform which Mr. Lloyd George has been developing for several years past, to catch the farmer vote. Further elaboration of the party platform proceeded monotonously and then David Lloyd George jumped up to make his promised keynote attack on Tory foreign policy. His point of savage attack was, of course, the secret Anglo-French naval agreement concluded by Sir Austen Chamberlain just before his nervous breakdown (TIME...
...tumult and the shouting of the political campaign grows ever shriller and more mordant, Lampy seizes the opportunity to insinuate that these demi-gods who battle amid the rumblings of reform and the crash of platforms are but mortals after all. While the stentorian tones of our fire-eating friends from below the Mason and Dixon Line-and even from nearer home than that-clamor for just retribution to be exacted by a woefully wronged people, Lampy has the temerity to suggest that, "Another thing that Al could do that Moses Couldn't was look good in a brown derby...