Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...staff artist for the Illustrated London News produced a classic series of anti-horse-eating sketches (see cut). In Paris humanity to horses about to be eaten is preached by L'Intransigeant, striven for by La Ligue Française pour la Protection du Cheval. Main reform urged is to kill the old nags where they are and go to the expense of transporting their meat in refrigerator cars. Now they are made to transport themselves and frequently not fed between purchase and slaughter some days or weeks afterward, to save fodder...
...Reform, "providing the method is legal and practical...
...most significant opinions on these matters, are isolated, their favoring of this particular economic adjustment is pronounced. Thus though both camps agree in their denunciation of Communism, the students are the more antagonistic toward, it, and the more thoughtful part of them is the most anxious of all to reform capitalism to meet its red assailant...
...reestablishment of the sound principles of American government which have put the country's laboring class in a position of greater comfort than in any other country in the world. Such principles, he continued, will lead to greater confidence and that, in turn to business conditions from which reform may most effectively be made...
...nothing more seriously the matter with Tommy than that he has lice in his hair, which his loyal sister attempts to remove with a can of kerosene. But environment leads him to rob a rich boy, stab the boy's father and start on his way to the reform school and high crime. There, as suddenly as he begins his narrative, Playwright Kingsley stops...