Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Zagri's job is to kill the labor-reform bill inspired by the Hoffa scandals, or at the least to eliminate the parts Hoffa does not like. Though not ready for action when the Kennedy-Ervin bill passed the Senate, Zagri made his hefty presence (6 ft., 216 lbs.) felt soon after the bill landed last April in the House Education and Labor Committee. By the time the committee got around last week to key votes, sore-boned members realized that Zagri had adapted for the lobbying craft the bullyboy methods that Teamsters made famous in trade unionism...
...Zagri opposed, even revised the hot-cargo section to make sure that it would control Teamsters without forcing legitimate strikers to go through picket lines. Scheduled for final committee vote this week-and near enough to the Senate version to have a good chance of becoming law-the labor reform bill was a stronger piece of legislation than it would have been without Zagri's efforts. By sending in his persuader, Hoffa gave Congressmen a personal taste of his tactics, apparently firmed up their resolve to do something about them...
...attitude, so have the liberals changed. "These men," says Indiana's freshman Democratic Congressman John Brademas of his classmates, "are well educated. Yet they have an earthiness about them. They worked up the tough way. They did not float in on any cloud of reform, or come in on coattails or by flukes...
...strategy board, senses the change-and more changes to come. In a confidential memorandum circulating among the party's presidential hopefuls last week, Schlesinger argues that the country, with tidal regularity, goes through alternating cycles of liberalism and conservatism every 15 or 16 years. A new reform era is coming in a few years. But meanwhile, Democrats should ride the conservative crest and adapt to the changes. "Instead of the quantitative liberalism of the '30s, we need now a 'qualitative liberalism,' dedicated to bettering the quality of people's lives and opportunities...
...western, tobacco-growing Pinar del Rio, the secretary of the Association of Rustic Estate Owners said that he had gone to a radio station to make an anti-reform broadcast, but had been stopped by a crowd of 60 men wielding clubs. A decree announced last week established the death penalty for counter-revolutionary activity, including armed plots, invasions, sabotage or dropping leaflets...