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Word: reformed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Minnesota. Styled the "Coolidge of Minnesota" because of his economies and tax reform, re-elected Governor Theodore Christianson, Republican, is a close friend of Andrew Volstead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Governors | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...democracy of authentic, Anglo-Saxon stamp, retaining constitutional monarchy. Second, to accord to Rumania's national minorities a just and lawful share in government, whereas they have been exploited and oppressed. Third to debureaucratize and decentralize the Government, granting more authority to provinces and municipalities. Fourth, to reform the notoriously corrupt and unscrupulous Police, Gendarmerie and Secret Service. Fifth, to reconstruct the nation economically, providing broad measures of agricultural and industrial assistance. Sixth, to reverse the Bratiano policy of shutting out foreign capital, and rather welcome "peaceful penetration" of Rumania under appropriate and lenient restrictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Speech from the Throne | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...remarkable comeback to Power. He was last Prime Minister from 1906 to 1912. Prior to the Parliamentary Election of last month he welded disaffected groups into the new Union Party (TIME, Nov. 26), and when ballots were counted was found to control only two less Parliamentary seats than the Reform Party of Prime Minister Joseph Gordon Coates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ZEALAND: Swing to Left | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...opposed to the former 5% plus 2.5% surtax. In defending this sharp increase Finance Minister T. V. Soong declared, probably quite truthfully, that the new Nationalist Government is "in imperative need of funds" to liquidate their Civil War Debt and carry out their impressive programs of peaceful development and reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Tariff | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...Gluck and Opera Reform", Professor Hill, Music Building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/5/1928 | See Source »

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