Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Walk. Four years after Gandhi's death, disciple Vinoba Bhave (rhymes with save), often called the "son of Gandhi" is leading a one-man land reform crusade. His crusade which began with remarkable success in Communist-terrorized Telingana province (TIME, June 4), now promises to sweep through India. Bhave's target: the redistribution of 50 million acres-one-sixth of the cultivated land-among India's millions of landless peasants. His argument: "In India the ideal of Ahimsa (nonviolence) has deeply influenced people's minds. We can successfully bring about peaceful social revolution by gentle persuasion...
...Boston, ex-Convict James Michael Curley, former mayor, Congressman and governor, made a halfhearted effort to come back to another term as mayor. Respected Mayor John B. Hynes buried Curley under the biggest plurality in the history of Boston mayoralty elections. Candidates of the New Boston Committee, a nonpartisan reform organization, won five of nine seats on the city council, four of five on the school committee...
...only did the Cambridge Civic Association lose control of the School Committee in the November sixth election, but it nearly lost control of the City Council as well. This does not mean that Cambridge voters tired of the CCA as a reform organization; it means that they were dissatisfied with the CCA as a slate of candidates...
...independents who won do not share any program such as their CCA colleagues do. To the extent that these independents dominate Cambridge government, legislating will be a matter of reconciling a plethora of conflicting opinions. The CCA's broad program for continued reform will be lost in the constant necessity to compromise, and legislation will consequently lose direction and purpose...
...hero of this show gets so fed up with fishing that he goes off to the big city and becomes a successful crook. Meanwhile, a fellow racketeer in the city decides to reform and takes up fishing. He drowns. There's a moral to all this, but "Raging Tide" won't make you wriggle in your seat...