Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard has a very sympathetic and cooperative Financial Aid Center and Student Employment Office. It would be most desirable and beneficial if those organizations would help pressure for a revision of the academic year. It is also hopefully suggested that the CRIMSON will consider campaigning for this much needed reform in the school calendar. Jim Gregg...
...victorious occasion and the company. Around Earl sat some of Huey's old associates: former Governor Richard W. Leche (rhymes with flesh), who went to jail in 1941 for mail fraud; Robert S. Maestri, mayor of a graft-ridden New Orleans for ten years, until ousted by a reform candidate in 1946; George Reyer, Maestri's police superintendent; and Abe L. Shushan, former president of the levee board, who also went to jail in 1941 for mail fraud. Earl began to reminisce to the boys in the room about their late leader...
Earl faced heavy opposition-notably from DeLesseps ("Chep") Morrison, reform mayor of New Orleans, and Francis Grevemberg, the racket-busting state police superintendent. But Earl's opponents decided to campaign mostly by TV, and this gave Earl an opening. Although he had suffered a heart attack in 1950, Earl did not spare himself. Month after month he ranged the state, six to eight speeches a day, spit and scratch, handing out free hams and groceries, bringing on the hillbilly boys, whooping it up in the backwoods to break the monotony of rural life. There are 64 parishes (counties...
...personal inspirations with the whole community. Buber, a leading collector of Hasidic lore, is in a sense himself a zaddik. He too rebels against the overrigid emphasis on the law. But he has also moved away from the "enlightenment" of 18th and 19th century Jewish thinkers (which led to Reform Judaism). He distrusts all philosophical systems. His is less a way of thinking about God than of personally relating...
...always have. I couldn't get by otherwise.") Poujade formed the Union for the Defense of Shopkeepers and Artisans, which quickly spread throughout France. In March last year, heading a national movement of 800,000 supporters, he called a taxpayers' strike, took his fight for fiscal reform to the National Assembly, where he sat in the gallery brazenly directing the debate, won concessions from Premier Faure's government (TIME, April 11). Setting up headquarters in a villa near