Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night, in a speech broadcast from Manhattan, General Clay supplied more facts & figures to explain his confidence. In the four months since the Allied currency reform was put into effect, he reported, the total production of Western Germany had risen a staggering 35%. Steel production was up from an annual rate of 2,500,000 to 7,000,000 tons; coal, from 275,000 tons to more than 300,000 tons a day. Said Clay: "Everywhere labor and management have new hope, and soon Germany's recovery will be felt in filling the trade vacuum which has existed...
...Hayes and Wheeler and Reform in the Faculty, Honesty in Policies and Cribs in Examinations," was the battle cry of the 1876 Republicans. From that campaign came the College's only original campaign poem...
JUNE 18. The Western Allies announce their currency reform. Next day, the Russians suspend all passenger train traffic between the Eastern and Western zones, supposedly to keep Western marks out of the Russian sector. (Actually the first Russian traffic restrictions came almost three months before...
Columbia makes a tradition of having presidents who dabble in politics. Seth Low was a noted reform mayor of New York. Nicholas Murray Butler was, for a time, a considerable power in Republican politics, and reputedly harbored White House ambitions...
...Future. Now, says the Times, "these quick, tremendous, inventive, bold people are to be tested once more." For the third time in history their empire is on the rocks. It broke up once when Joan of Arc smashed the Anglo-French alliance. It abandoned the Channel and reformed across the ocean, only to come to grief again at the hands of George Washington's men. The question facing Britons now, says the Times, "is whether, and, if so, in what shape, it will reform . . . Very few societies have done this trick twice. None, except perhaps the Greek, with Athens...