Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...A.F.L. brasshats, retreating from their attempt to reform the docks, cut their organizing losses (about $1,000,000), ended their all-out campaign and fired John Dwyer. When Dwyer protested, they ignored his letters and hung up on phone calls. Last week Dwyer bitterly told his men to "forget about the A.F.L, and go back to the I.L.A." Brusquely, the I.L.A. snubbed Dwyer and said A.F.L. rank-and-filers could come back only if they paid up back dues. For a happy ending dockers could go to the movies...
...American allies until a few months ago. But this truth must be faced, no matter how painful: outmoded American diplomatic methods met with French political cowardice and both got along splendidly. On the one side, in France, we had a series of conservative governments, unwilling to face serious reform in the country's economy. At the end of each month, they were compelled to borrow money to patch up the gaps. It was all very simple. The leaders of the old French regime promised the U.S. almost everything: a military victory in Indo-China. an enthusiastic vote...
...Violent" Reform...
...believed that the document will also contain a clause stating that the student has never condoned or aided any "violent" economic or political reform...
...settlers were Sephardic Jews, whose ancestors had lived in Spain or Portugal. In the two decades after Europe's revolutionary tremors of 1848, more than 200,000 European Jews, most of them German-speaking, migrated to the U.S. Their Americanization was rapid and thorough, gave rise to a Reform Judaism that outspokenly rejected the traditional idea of Jewish nationhood...