Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Questions for Teacher. From Kyoto, headquarters for the Occupation Army's First Corps, the Americans have also launched a program to educate adults-a 19-lesson course, with films, lectures and discussion groups. It meets for two hours twice a week, covers every field of postwar reform from taxes and public health to trade unionism and the new constitution. Given in seventh-grade language, it is designed to teach 30 million adults, in the next five years, "the principles of democracy which everyone can understand...
Last week Bonduel's retired farmers and small merchants turned out in record numbers to pass judgment on Hot Rod's reform campaign, then ambled back to their beer and games of schmere and sheepshead. The count: 118 for John Froelich, 48 for Hot Rod. Said 51-year-old John as he began another term: "I guess I showed that young whippersnapper." Hot Rod's grandfather added: "I didn't vote for Hot Rod [but] he'll be all right after a while. He's like...
...want facts. It's strictly a business proposition." Washington heard that Zellerbach had antagonized just about everyone he met, that he was ripping into left, center and right for not seeing things the way Americans do. He antagonized a lot of Italians by telling them that land reform was bad because it would decrease production. This, he said, was just his personal opinion; Italians had a hard time distinguishing between Zellerbach, the person, and Zellerbach, the ECAdministrator...
Opponents of proportional representation have been trying to effect its repeal since passage of the revised Uniform Charter Act in 1938. That law gave reform-minded cities in the state a choice among five types of municipal government-the different charters were termed "plans." Plan E was one that provided for city council election by proportional representation; the voter marks his ballot by numbering candidates in his order of preference. Thus any bill aimed at that provision would cripple the plan and make it an unnecessary addition to the Charter Act, since plan D carries the same provisions, but without...
...fight for its adoption in Boston still continues. If Senate 5, or any one of its ilk, passes the legislature, Cambridge and other Plan E cities will have to return to old methods of voting, ward system and all. Plan E, an effective means for achieving municipal reform, will be emasculated; the politicians who would like a return to old times, as well as those who want no change in present city government, would have what they've been after all along...