Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest hour at Lake Success came -when Polish Delegate Julius Katz-Suchy, in a carefully prepared oration, blasted the U.S. for its lack of a land-reform program as sweeping as that of Communist Poland. John Sparkman, son of a tenant farmer and lifelong student of U.S. farm problems, was on his feet the minute Katz-Suchy sat down. With no preparation, Sparkman delivered a brilliant speech, pulling out of his head facts & figures which completely routed the Pole...
...publishers of the largest and best string of newspapers and magazines in the Middle East, big (238 Ib.) Mustafa Amin and his identical (238 Ib.) twin brother Ali have rightly earned a reputation for being vigorous democrats and courageous reformers. Their weekly Akhbar el Yom (News of the Day-circ. 150,000) and five other publications hammer at government corruption. Yet just before dawn one day last week, eight Egyptian army officers armed with Tommy guns and acting in the name of reform swooped down on the brothers' Cairo home and arrested them. Readers of their papers were astounded...
Corruption & Bombs. The baldpated, 38-year-old brothers are united by more than their zeal for reform. They are not only lookalikes, but they smoke the same cigarettes, are married and each has one daughter, drive the same make & model car, and write and think alike so much that one can start a story which the other can finish without ever missing a phrase. "If we don't check with each other-beforehand," says Mustafa, "we find ourselves writing two editorials on the same event with only minor differences in wording...
...updated the story: "Today, history records the name of an oppressive and unjust King ... A King who used the influence of the monarch to flog the backs of the liberals, who imposed misery and slavery on the country and forced the country to call his tyranny justice, his corruption reform, and his immorality piety...
...Eightyish and four times Premier, Ahmed Qavam, a multimillionaire, is tough, ambitious and intrigue-loving. But in his own cynical way he is also an Iranian patriot. Qavam issued a hard-hitting manifesto: "The pilot has taken a new course. God help those who try to sabotage my reform endeavors." He announced he would try to solve the oil crisis in friendly talks with the British...