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Word: reforms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gathered excitedly in unusual numbers and commenced august debate when the Conservative Government of Premier Stanley Baldwin suddenly put forward its long mooted and highly reactionary proposal to "reform" the House of Lords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Parliament's Week: Jul. 4, 1927 | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...scheme to reform the House," said he, "must fail to arouse public interest, while so many of its members pass the time on their estates upholding the traditions of British sportsmanship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Parliament's Week: Jul. 4, 1927 | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

Debate on the "reform" proposals was very largely attended last week, became the leading political topic, roused Labor orators throughout Britain to violent protest. There seemed little chance, however, that the projected Reform Act can be drawn up, much less presented to Parliament, before next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Parliament's Week: Jul. 4, 1927 | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

President George M. Eastman of the Eastman Kodak Co., last week again assumed championship of calendar reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Calendar | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

...head of "improvements" will in the not too distant future be brought to their attention as a factor in their not too distant future be brought to their attention as a factor in their education which has neither the etheriality of mere theory nor the abstractness of "another educational reform...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMING EVENTS | 6/7/1927 | See Source »

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