His pamphlet " The Art of Organ Building and Organ Playing in Germany and France " ( 1906, republished with an appendix on the state of the organ-building industry in 1927 ) effectively launched the 20th century Orgelbewegung, which turned away from romantic extremes and rediscovered baroque principles — although this sweeping reform movement in organ building eventually went further than Schweitzer himself had intended.

In an attempt to quell the general unrest, the system of estates was abolished in the parliamentary reform of 1906, which also introduced universal suffrage.

A section of the conservatives had always been against democracy ; others had approved parliamentarianism since the revolutionary reform of 1906, but after the crisis of 1917 and the outbreak of the 1918 war, had concluded that empowering the common people would not work.

The word kulak originally referred to independent farmers in the Russian Empire who emerged from the peasantry and became wealthy following the Stolypin reform, which began in 1906.

The reform of 1906 was the most radical in the history of Swedish orthography.

The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 is cited by drug policy reform advocates such as James P. Gray as a successful model for re-legalization of currently prohibited drugs by requiring accurate labels, monitoring of purity and dose, and consumer education.

Reconciliation appeared imminent when Balfour agreed to a general election after the 1906 Colonial Conference, in which tariff reform would be discussed.

In 1906, Tsar Nicholas II sent a secret agent to China to collect intelligence on the reform and modernization of the Qing Dynasty.

The college actually dissolved the football program in 1906, pronouncing, according to the Mac Weekly: " Thoroughly aroused to the evils, real or imaginary, of this game, the public is clamoring for the entire abolition or reform on this ' relic of barbarism.

The Eastlake Movement was a nineteenth century architectural and household design reform movement started by architect and writer Charles Eastlake ( 1836 – 1906 ).

Before the 1906 spelling reform ⟨ q ⟩ and ⟨ w ⟩ were common, and many family names still use them.

Balfour had been becoming increasingly unpopular as Leader of the Conservative Party since the 1906 general election ; tariff reformers saw his leadership as the reason for their electoral losses, and the " free fooders " had been alienated by Balfour's attempts to tame the zeal of the tariff reform faction.

Elected governor three times — in 1904, 1906, and 1908 — Johnson's ability to reason and work with legislators of both parties resulted in such reform legislation as reorganization of the state's insurance department to the benefit of policyholders, reduction of railroad passenger and freight rates, and removal of constitutional restraints on the legislature's power to tax.

Responding to these civil failures and discontent, the Qing Imperial Court attempted to reform the government in various ways, such as the decision to draft a constitution in 1906, the establishment of provincial legislatures in 1909 and the preparation for a national parliament in 1910.

His unwaivering opposition to the political reform demanded by the First Duma left him unable to work with that body and he resigned in July 1906.

The dismal performance of the Hellenic Army in the war of 1897 led to a major reform programme under the administration of Georgios Theotokis ( 1899 – 1901, 1903 – 1904 and 1906 – 1909 ).

From 1891 until the parliamentary reform of 1906 the three commoner estates of Clergy, Burghers and Peasants met in the newly-built House of the Estates ( Finnish Säätytalo, Swedish Ständerhuset ).

After the 1906 parliamentary reform, the party was consistently the biggest non-socialist party in parliamentary elections in 1907 – 1917 and the second biggest overall after the Social Democrats.

He objected to Joseph Chamberlain's proposals for tariff reform, and at the general election of 1906 he stood as an independent Free Trader, but came third, behind the two official Unionist candidates, and lost his seat.

On the advice of Germany he proposed the assembly of an international conference at Algeciras in 1906 to consult upon methods of reform, the sultan's desire being to ensure a condition of affairs which would leave foreigners with no excuse for interference in the control of the country, and would promote its welfare, which Abd-el-Aziz had earnestly desired from his accession to power.

However, many of the proposals from the congress were introduced in the 6th edition of the same dictionary in 1889 ( e-ä, qv-kv ) and the rest ( dt, fv, hv ) in a spelling reform for Swedish schools, introduced in 1906 by the minister of education Fridtjuv Berg ( 1851 – 1916 ).

Supposedly, he joined the U. S. Army to escape the dangerous world of petty crime, reform school escapes, and the mining business, but he deserted in 1906 and drifted to Mexico.

During this period the party was generally known as the Unionist Party, and it suffered a large defeat when the party split over tariff reform in 1906.

Hearst's luck was even poorer when he had a chat with Franklin K. Lane, a prominent California journalist and reform politician, whom he asked for his support.

In reference to Brown's raid she wrote, `` though we are non-resistants and religiously believe it better to reform by moral and not by carnal weapons, we know thee was anemated by the most generous and philanthropic motives ''.

The revised procedure was acclaimed as a long-overdue reform.

They would become tagged as men not interested in being purely real estate `` professionals '' but agitators for some kind of `` cause '' or `` reform '', and this was no longer to be a `` pro ''.

From 2002 to July 2008 under Turkmen calendar reform, the month of August was named after Alp Arslan.

During the Carolingian epoch the custom grew up of granting these as regular heritable fiefs or benefices, and by the 10th century, before the great Cluniac reform, the system was firmly established.

This proposal, which was understandably appealing to Albert, had already been discussed by some of his relatives ; but it was necessary to proceed cautiously, and he assured Pope Adrian VI that he was anxious to reform the Order and punish the knights who had adopted Lutheran doctrines.

He also was the one bishop that published ecclesiastical legislation during Edward the Confessor's reign, attempting to discipline and reform the clergy.

The able and forceful empress Euphrosyne tried in vain to sustain his credit and his court ; Vatatzes, the favourite instrument of her attempts at reform, was assassinated by the emperor's orders.

He was a key figure in the Danish policies of territorial expansion in the Baltic Sea, Europeanization in close relationship with the Holy See, and reform in the relation between the Church and the public.

He was a powerful supporter of the movement for spelling reform as a means of promoting the spread of the English language.

This was intended to be the nec plus ultra of reform opera, a completely new synthesis of poetry and music that was an 18th-century anticipation of the ideals of Richard Wagner.

In part this position was also necessary, as otherwise there would have been no means to elicit or initiate reform of the church.

Administrative law in the People's Republic of China was virtually non-existent before the economic reform era initiated by Deng Xiaoping.

The municipality Abdera was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 3 former municipalities, that became municipal units:

By the first century BC brass was available in sufficient supply to use as coinage in Phrygia and Bithynia, and after the Augustan currency reform of 23 BC it was also used to make Roman dupondii and sestertii.

Some of his policies, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement and welfare reform, have been attributed to a centrist Third Way philosophy of governance, while on other issues his stance was left-of-center.

When pro-reform forces came into power in the spring 1997, an ambitious economic reform package, including introduction of a currency board regime, was agreed to with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and the economy began to stabilise.

When pro-reform forces came into power in the spring 1997, an ambitious economic reform package, including introduction of a currency board regime, was agreed to with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and the economy began to stabilise.

The loan was used to develop financial markets, improve social safety net programmes, strengthen the tax system, reform agricultural and energy sectors, and further liberalise trade.

Due to the economic crisis that affected most former Eastern bloc countries, a steady reform in the military could not be carried out ; much of the equipment fell into disrepair and some of it was smuggled and sold to the international black market.