Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are some friends who think that Nancy started Kefauver toward a political career. Others say he has wanted to be President ever since he was born. At any rate, he joined a young reform group called the Volunteers, and after an unsuccessful try for state senator in 1938, easily captured a congressional vacancy the following year. In Washington he was assigned to the important judiciary committee, developed a keen interest in federal government, and turned out a book on congressional reorganization, A 20th Century Congress. But in his nine years in the House, young Congressman Kefauver was noted principally...
...well titled dock shattered his prediction, however. It was 11:20 before Judge Donahue freed on probation two men pleading guilty to 17 counts of larceny, sent a 19-year-old gas station burglar back to reform school, committed two men to a mental hospital, and returned a grateful man to his harrassed wife after fining him $200 for "indecent exposure...
Therefore, the way to make Parliament reform the laws of England is to make it look like a fool...
Most Western oilmen realize this, yet reform necessarily lags behind royalties. It is easier to extract a million barrels of oil than to educate a whole people to a new, precarious, speeded-up way of life. Moreover, oil companies must beware of interfering too much: the sheik they prod may also cancel their concession. Yet (as Iran proved) if the company doesn't prod, the internal discontent can become so explosive as to endanger its position. Damned if they do, and damned if they don't, the companies move circumspectly, and in most cases with surprising skill...
...Liberator for his favorite constitutional ideas, many of his own Conservatives seemed loth to turn the clock back. Even in 1826, one warned, Colombians wanted no part of the Bolivarian constitution. Nevertheless, the President pressed for action. Senator Alvaro Gómez, his son, demanded "complete constitutional reform...