Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first-rate Army Air Forces pilot in World War II-he was one of ten in the ferry command who volunteered to ferry P-475 across the Atlantic, later flew The Hump from India to China-he came home to head a reform slate to clean up Phoenix's city government. He earned such public acclaim for doing just that-and cutting taxes to boot-that in 1952 he felt sassy enough to tackle Democratic Senator Ernest W. McFarland, Harry Truman's majority leader. Homespun Ernie scarcely deigned to notice this lively upstart. But in the Eisenhower landslide...
...Federal District Court last January to see to it that Jimmy cleans up his union. At week's end two of the three monitors asked the court to cancel plans for the election because Hoffa has not even begun to comply with the monitors' demands for reform. The monitors got some solid support from Senate Committee Chairman McClellan himself...
...experiment has hardly begun, but as each Department initiates its reforms one will soon be able to evaluate in a more sober maner the program which marks the start of a new wave of educational reform at Harvard. On this score, two factors--one unfortunate, one heartening--emerge as serious facets of the new look of Harvard education...
Labor. Long the handmaiden of the Democratic Party, organized labor has suffered its worst shame in decades at the hands of the Senate's McClellan laborrackets investigating committee. The pitiless expose of labor corruption by Democrat John McClellan has revolted the nation and emboldened Republicans to make labor reform a campaign issue. Last week the Denver County Republican leaders publicly endorsed a right-to-work constitutional amendment-a maneuver calculated to lure some of the state's 200,000 independent voters. Congressional failure to pass the Kennedy-Ives labor-reform bill will be laid essentially to the Democrats...
...believes in close economic ties with the West, a soundly managed private enterprise at home. He expects to run a strong government, one that will press for much-needed increases in production per worker without an inflationary jack-up in wages. One of his first goals is to reform the costly, featherbedding social-security system. And he also hopes to save some of Chile's vital copper income produced in times of high prices to tide the country over inevitable slumps in world copper markets...