Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unconstitutional. For 30 years the Congress Party of Prime Minister Nehru has cried for the abolition of zamindari, but India's constitution leaves land reform to the individual states. For five, the powerful zamindars themselves fought a bill to outlaw their kind in Uttar Pradesh, largest in population of the 28 states. Last year the bill was passed, and the zamindars hired the best lawyers they could find to prove it unconstitutional. Led by Nehru, India's parliament amended the constitution against the zamindars. The Supreme Court upheld Nehru. Last week Uttar Pradesh's law came into...
...everything foreseeable is being done to make it succeed. "In the first place," says Dr. Leon, "we take only the 'normal' addicts-that is, kids whose only antisocial behavior is addiction. Trying to cure that is hard enough, and we can't try to reform robbers, rapers and the like...
...kind of Socialist the Reds denounce as a "Sewer Socialist." They are right in a way, for Drees would rather give his people sewers today than promise a proletarian heaven in 1984. Starting 39 years ago as a Socialist councilman in The Hague, Drees ascended the ladder to power, reform by reform-always carefully administered, of course, and with a thrifty eye on the budget. In World War II, Drees was imprisoned in Buchenwald for a year, then served as a member of the underground directorate which the Dutch, with stolid inspiration, called the Board of Reliable...
...landholders. In answer to hints that the law might bring civil war, it issued a decree last week forbidding any citizen to carry arms. And its congressional backers, led by Communist Victor Manuel Gutiérrez, wrote another amendment into the bill: "Landowners who oppose the agrarian reform law by violent or subversive means will be totally expropriated by the government without regard to the limitations referred...
...names of those he must help, regardless of creed ("There is no such thing as Methodist mumps, Baptist domestic troubles, Presbyterian poverty or Catholic broken legs"). His interest in parole work was sparked by Author O. Henry, a onetime convict, and he became a leader in Texas prison reform. With a shotgun over his shoulder and a bottle of whiskey in his pocket, he led Galveston citizens in keeping order after the 1900 hurricane. Said a longtime friend and Texas judge: "If ever saber rattling passes from the earth, it will be because of the Henry Cohens...