Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House Veterans' Affairs Committee unanimously approved a veterans' pension reform bill that could save the taxpayers an estimated $12 billion over the next four decades.The Administration-backed bill adopts a sliding-scale principle for determining how big a pension an elderly or partially disabled veteran may draw; the bigger his income from other sources, the smaller his pension. But, fearful of annoying veterans' organizations, the committee balked at an Administration proposal to count social security payments as income. The reforms apply only to future cases: no veteran now drawing a federal pension will get a cent less...
...storm of protest against Fidel Castro's confiscatory agrarian-reform law * rolled into the acoustic-walled Cabinet room in Havana's presidential palace one night last week and brought on the first major split in the Cuban revolution. From 9 p.m. until 2 a.m., ministers snapped at each other across the oval mahogany table. For five of his 20 ministers, Castro had short, blunt rebukes...
...Agriculture Minister Humberto Sori Marin: "You have been publicly critical of land reform...
...notion of an Agriculture Minister who had misgivings about land reform naturally infuriated Castro, and Havana heard that the other chided ministers, particularly Agramonte, were also fainthearted about the drastic law. Castro's answer was to fire them all and replace them with more fervent...
Small-Holder Protest. Outside the Cabinet, Castro fought for his law with threats, cajolery and left-wing bombast. "Land reform will not be stopped even if the sky rains spikes," he angrily told the National Newsmen's Association. In the Havana Hilton's glittering banquet room, he pleaded with 1,000 lawyers, once the main supporters of his rebellion but now disturbed and doubtful: "Revolution implies change. An immense majority of the people lack bread." The next night he blustered over TV: "If at some time it is necessary to apply revolutionary justice anew, we will defend...