Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Williams, the boy wonder of three schools, rounded the corner and came face to face with practical politics. He aligned himself with two highly practical Democratic groups which needed nothing so much as a popular candidate. They were the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee and a Fair Dealing reform group known as the Michigan Democratic Club...
...Hang On? The odds against Naguib are formidable. Reform in Egypt (or anywhere else in the Middle East) is not simply a matter of passing laws against sin. Corruption is not only the result of greediness among the rich; to millions, it is almost a way of life, prompted by insecurity, hopelessness, and fear of what tomorrow may bring-or take away. To sweep out corruption, as he has promised, Naguib will have to break the stubborn power of the landowning pashas, who are fighting him every inch of the way; he will also have to rebuild Egyptian society from...
...Serag el Din, used the magic word "purge" to get rid of their rivals, then started plotting to get rid of Naguib. Their plan is to smear Naguib as unpatriotic for failing to throw the British out of Suez and the Sudan. Naguib's counterplan: a stiff electoral reform law, excluding men of "known dishonesty" from political office...
...quixotic wit and author, does not believe that all marriages are made in heaven. In his novel Holy Deadlock, he charged full tilt into Britain's archaic divorce laws; after he got into Parliament, he pushed through the Matrimonial Causes Act in 1937, the first piece of divorce-reform legislation in 81 years. In the fight over that bill, some of Herbert's most strenuous opposition came from a conservative faction in the Church of England. Last week they were at it again, this time on the issue of Anthony Eden's remarriage...
...hostile Congress and 7,000,000 families without breadwinners, Hoover feels that he met the challenge head on. He won a year's moratorium on war debts and reparations, shored up the gold standard, called a world economic conference, set up the Reconstruction Finance Corp., and launched reform of "our rotten banking system." Says he: "[These] great legislative and other measures . . . turned away panic and started us on the road to real recovery around July...