Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the dinner hour one quiet evening last week, Demo-Christian Deputy Oscar Scalfaro stood up in the Italian Chamber of Deputies and made a motion: let the House sit seven days a week to speed debate on the government's electoral reform bill. Up popped Socialist Fellow Traveler Pietro Nenni to cry: "The majority is attempting a coup." Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti, discarding his usual pose of blue-serge respectability, shouted: "This isn't a Parliament. It is a bivouac of priests." From the right came the reply: "Go back to your Soviet Parliament, Togliatti. Your game...
...Gasperi's electoral reform bill proposed that the winning party or coalition of parties be given a bonus of additional seats, sufficient to give it at least 63% of the total number of seats, enough for a working majority. If passing the bill was important to the Demo-Christians, defeating it was imperative to the Reds...
Professor in Power. Here was no half-literate army bullyboy. Paz was one nationalist fanatic who talked cold business like a businessman, a former economics professor who had balanced a budget and knew the cost of sweeping reform. But with his economist's eyes wide open, Dictator Paz took the plunge by nationalizing tin at once in spite of his empty treasury. It was a political decision. "You forced me to do it," he told a representative of the tin companies...
General Naguib's overall reform program in Egypt is keyed toward establishing a democratic parliamentary, government, Abdul Kamil Rahim, Egyptian Ambassador, to the United States, said yesterday in an informal meeting at Harkness Commons...
Some of the opposition are for prompt amendment of the constitution, to shear the King's power; some are for nationalization of the oilfields, some for land reform, some merely against alliances with the West. Behind them, but in the forefront of the rioting, were Communist partisans, happy to direct the troublemaking against Britain...