Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thanks to democracy that Britain has been able to control that continuous and almost insensible adaptation between progress and tradition which has permitted her to transform all her institutions while remaining faithful to herself? Is it not thanks to democracy that the United States has been able to bring about a prodigious economic renewal in a few years without compromising legal order for a single instant, without going outside the framework of the Constitution elaborated just after the War of Independence by American disciples of Montesquieu and Rousseau? "No, democracy does not emerge condemned by the long trial waged against...
...questionnaire about his business experience. Retained, however, was the old Harding Rule of Three, whereby the party in power could always put its partisans into jobs. The two major changes in the 1933 edict effected by last week's order were to make the civil service examinations actual, transform the Rule of Three into a Rule...
...estranged from her smart sister Helen because of a court battle over their mother's estate, is famed in Denver for her gaudy back yard in which the trees are painted white. Simple and austere, however, are the plans by which able Architect Jules Jacques Benous Benedict will transform the exterior of existing red brick Franciscan buildings into Lombard Romanesque, outfit the interiors with a new altar, mosaic and murals, library, dining hall and study rooms for 20 brown-robed monks. Those monks will call their habitation Bonfils Memorial Monastery...
Chuckle in Bandages. Should ballots make Léon Blum Premier and bullets not turn him out of office,*he and his Socialist Party are pledged first gradually to transform the "Capitalist society" of France into a "Collectivist society." Next they would strive to create for the world an international currency of constant and unfluctuating value with international bonds paying a modest rate of interest secured by all the world's governments. The lucrative armament industry would be made a State monopoly and its profits secured in toto by the State...
Since the case against the holding company was so strong, wrote Messrs. Schwab & Grace, Bethlehem was about to transform itself into an operating company, absorb four subsidiaries, "as the initial steps in a consolidation program." Still outside the fold are some 60 other Bethlehem subsidiaries including the most important ones...