Word: reform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said Britain's Home Secretary and Lord Privy Seal, "that my destiny lies in the field of social reform-and I am happy in it." To those who know the cool and acid-tongued Richard Austen Butler well, the philosophic tone of the first part of that remark must have seemed odd; Rab Butler has shown not the slightest sign that he has given up hope of one day living at 10 Downing Street. But no one could have taken issue with the straightness of the second part. Probably not since Wilberforce has Britain had a more dedicated reformer...
...Formidable Quartet. Though he comes from a long line of reformers (his father was a top British civil servant in India), Butler fell in with the family tradition quite unintentionally. His rise to power in the Conservative Party was dogged by the memory of 1939, when, at the age of 36, it was his duty to defend the Munich disaster in the House of Commons (the Foreign Secretary, Halifax, was in the House of Lords). The formidable quartet of Tories who opposed Munich-Churchill, Eden, Macmillan and Lord Salisbury-never really made common cause with him. Prime Minister Churchill tucked...
...these criticisms are valid, then something is quite clearly wrong with the present draft arrangement. The law expires this June, and perhaps it is not possible for the Congress to give the problem the careful scrutiny needed for legislative reform by then. But perhaps, also, such scrutiny is obligatory, not because of anxiety neuroses in American draft eligibles, but because the draft is actually a totally inadequate answer to America's defense needs. If Congress does decide to explore the question or to extend the act on a sort of probation, it might also look into the fact that...
Castro hopes to speed up the government's economic, social and reform programs and reorganization of the government and army...
...model farm, parts into a holiday home for invalid children. He kicked off and often led a house-to-house canvass of tenements built on his land, urged New York police to crack down on lawbreaking landlords. In later years, during Mayor Fiorello La Guardia's social-reform surge, he demolished slum tenements by the dozen, sold others to New York City on easy terms...