Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Both John Wesley and his brother Charles the co-founder of Methodism, were ordained a; Anglican priests. When John began to ordain ne Methodist ministers himself, Charles, who wanted only to reform the Church of England from within, strongly opposed him. Charles was such a thoroughgoing Anglican that, before he died, he announced his refusal to be buried in his Methodist brother's churchyard...
Public school administrators, Conant maintains, must recognize the validity of some arguments directed against their schools in view of their failure to provide adequate education to the gifted. This is quite true. But in many localities school administrators have been fettered by politics in their attempts to reform education. Cambridge citizens continually complained about the mediocre quality of secondary school education; their protests finally became so violent that the politicians knew something had to be done. Out of the dispute came the Simpson Report, drafted by a member of the faculty of the School of Education and advocating extensive reorganization...
...been unable to get agreement for a concerted attack on Italy's great and growing economic problems. Italy has 2,000,000 unemployed, another 1,500,000 working part-time. Millions of Italians still live in caves and huts, or jammed four and five into a room. Land reform, Italy's greatest need, has been imperceptible, in spite of De Gasperi's promises. De Gasperi's own party is split between the "Wasps," right-wingers who petition him to ease up on reform, and the Young Turks who repeatedly threaten to resign if reform...
Suits & Suitcases. It was wonderful fun for the highbinders who could get it. Still pending in a Havana court is a lawsuit brought by an Orthodox (Reform) Party Senator demanding that Grau and his ministers, including Prío, explain what happened to $174,241,840.14 that seemed to have disappeared during Grau's regime. The Senator's title for his case: "The greatest theft in history." But the greatest of the thieves is not named in the suit. José Manuel Alemán, Grau's favorite minister, who stole not one but an estimated hundred...
Last week the Communist Yangtze Daily had to eat some of its glowing words about the model residents of Hsi Shui. "Backward peasants and disgruntled Communist cadres," armed only with sticks and swords, had swept into the village land reform offices, killed the Communist boss and several of his henchmen. They were tired, the revolters shouted, of being the victims of land reform...