Word: reform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Many have the proper backgrounds, went to school at Eton and Oxford, served in the Guards or other "good" regiments. But. laments one adman who makes $56,000 a year: "People I grew up with, who have gone into civil service or banking, are members of the Athenaeum or Reform Club by now. I can't get in. I've tried and failed. Most of us have. It's because we have the use of so much money. Having capital is all right, but unlimited expenses are looked down...
...deadly instrument of interpellations (questions in debate). The technique was to pop a question at a minister, then toss in a series of motions, and demand a debate and a vote on every single one of them. As perfected in the 1952 debate that stymied the Tunisian reform program of Premier Pinay's government, this method of ministerial massacre has been known ever since as " Tunisification...
Last week Castro also: -¶ Heard 700 tobacco farmers vow that they were ready "to be led before firing squads" rather than comply with Castro's confiscatory land reform (TIME, June 1). ¶ Waited the results of a "public-opinion poll" that will purport to show what the U.S. thinks of Castro. The poll is the first project of Bernard Relin & Associates Inc., a U.S. public-relations agency hired by Cuba in April for $72,000 a year. ¶ Learned that ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista held $45,879,245 worth of stock in Cuban and foreign industries, about...
After Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa threatened a general strike if Congress passes a labor reform bill (TIME, June 1) Editorial Cartoonist Jim Dobbins, 34, of the Sunday Boston Herald (circ. 293,904), drew the tough trucker as a club-carrying cave man guarding a skull-littered tunnel labeled "Truck Route, U.S.A...
FRAGMENTING land into small holdings clashes head on with the trend toward efficient, big-scale farming with machinery. Essential for modern grain cultivation, big-scale farming is also useful in sugar; Puerto Rico tried and let die a 500-acre limit on sugar farms. By turning his agrarian reform against bigness rather than inefficiency, Castro may well scare off all U.S. capital and thereby slow Cuba's growth toward a diversified economy. As Mexico and Puerto Rico have proved, diversification provides new jobs and takes most of the fire away from the land-reform issue. Only 55% of Mexico...