Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the coming of the New Deal, Bob La Follette and his younger brother Philip formally organized the insurgent Progressive Party.* Father La Follette had kept it-barely-within the GOP, as a billowing reform movement. And though they swept Wisconsin in 1936, the progressives never really got off the ground. The New Deal appropriated many pet La Follette dreams, e.g., collective bargaining, unemployment compensation, and took credit for them to boot. But through the '30s, Young Bob worked faithfully in alliance with the New Deal on its domes tic program (exception: he wanted...
...Large segments of the population are embittered," he said. The government has separated families, turned children against their parents, handled land reform clumsily. In Southern China numerous independent guerrilla bands have taken over whole districts...
...Signed the second bill of his Administration, a reform measure giving the President powers to revamp the Government...
...fellow Southern Presbyterians cannot quarrel with his views against race segregation, for the church has abolished its last segregated Negro synod-fulfilling the letter as well as the spirit of the law. But a few members of the congregation protested that Pastor Jones was too intent on social reform and racial brotherhood to tell them much about the doctrines of salvation. Complained one former church officer: "Except for the sign on the bulletin board in front, you'd never know it was a Presbyterian church...
...change in the State Department. Eight years of bungling and timidity by the striped-pants snobocracy had left state with the lowest reputation of any government organ. So it was with high hopes that we watched the installation of a new Secretary, and listened to his assurances of reform. But last week's amazing revelations of sabotage in the Voice of America division prove the "cleanup" in high places to be a hollow mockery...