Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearly ten years he ruled eleven and a half million subjects who knew him as "Brother of the Moon," "HalfBrother of the Sun," "Possessor of the Four-and-Twenty Umbrellas." Six years ago he abdicated his throne on the refusal of the Cabinet to accept his demands for constitutional reform...
...Catholics celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first great labor encyclical, Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum ("Concerning New Things"), and the tenth anniversary of its sequel, Pius XI's Quadragesima Anno ("Forty Years After"). In these two documents the Roman Catholic Church said its say about social reform, and with its age-old flexibility took steps to adapt itself to 20th-century social change as it had to feudalism in the Middle Ages and to capitalism after the Reformation...
That record looked good for a reform mayor, looked particularly good compared with that of his opponent, tall and grey-haired, dignified and distant, Charles Quin. San Antonio's mayor for six and a half years before Maverick defeated him in 1939. Maverickos had no trouble making his administrations look like epics of graft, incompetency, black reaction...
...nation before having its hands free to fight an enemy must begin by winning the first battle over its own demagogic weaknesses," Guy said. Germany was spending enormous sums in constructing its army, France was spending large amounts for social reform. To arm itself effectively for battle, a nation cannot afford the luxury of granting its workers higher wages shorter, hours, and the privilege of engaging in long drawn-out strikes...
Forty Dartmouth, Amherst, and Harvard men, ferrying their Junior Prom dates home the night before last, discovered to their dismay that this traffic reform wave was in full swing. Cars piled up four deep on the road waiting for summonses. The boys were allowed to get their female passengers home before curfew, but when they reached the station house they were faced with the gloomy alternatives of raising $100 bail, cash or real estate, or spending the night in the jug. Bursar's Cards were scornfully rejected, and real estate was defined to exclude automobiles. They were not permitted...