Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more seats (for a total of 40) away from the Christian Democratic right-and thereby earned themselves the bitter enmity of Democrat de Gasperi. By a hair, 55,000 votes out of 28 million, the De Gasperi coalition missed winning the parliamentary bonus which De Gasperi's electoral reform law held out to any party or coalition winning more than 50% of the popular vote. De Gasperi could not assemble a majority to govern...
...doubly certain because of the mounting wealth, productive capacity, population, and because of the increasing complexity of business. Economists say that small business and consumer credit will particularly feel the expansion. any unemployment stemming from depression and the concomitant closing of banks will probably be negligible because of government reform measures...
Last night a member of the powerful four-councilman minority supported by the reform Cambridge Civic Association disclosed that the four were now "screening the other Council members to evaluate them." As of Monday, the day of the last meeting, the CCA men had been voting solely for each other...
...France; but Vincent Auriol, impelled by the gravity of the hour, took to the radio last week with a few cogent words of admonition. "Dear compatriots," he said, "continuity of the Republic and the permanence of France . . . require civic concord, so my first wish is that we should reform at the earliest moment our political and social habits as well as certain institutions, that we should silence fatal passions and hatreds-those hatreds which I have sometimes had to suffer in the silence imposed by my high position, those hatreds which rend the country at the very hour when...
...speech stressed the need for honesty, hard work and clean government, for more regard for the people, and for land reform. From many politicians the Filipinos had heard the words used as cores for resounding platitudes; from Magsaysay they came with earnestness and conviction. Cheer after cheer interrupted the speech. "I have been warned," said the new President, "that too much is expected of this administration, that our people expect the impossible. For this young and vigorous nation of ours nothing is impossible." The crowd went wild with enthusiasm, then, as if to prove his point, the new President blandly...