Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe the only defense of America lies in the wholehearted support of the democratic way of life, in safeguarding the Bill of Rights and in boldly carrying forward a policy of social reform. Our examination of the records and platforms of the various political parties convinces us that those who share these views must join us in supporting the Communist Party Candidates in the coming election. Roger Willcox, Dean Morse, Joseph Stein...
...argued that we are now living in these days of terrific peril for the very reason that we were too short-sighted when we fought a war a generation ago. We thought then that by a relatively minor effort we could once and for all reform the world and then forever live disarmed in peace. To my mind, if this country makes that error once again, we shall not only forego the hope of peace, but the hope of maintaining the democratic and liberal way of life we all hold dear...
...great hand at modernizing U. S. hospitals is 67-year-old Dr. Goldwater. A talented though unschooled architect, he has acted as private consultant in the building of over 200 big hospitals throughout the world, was called in to help reform the British voluntary hospital system, helped design a vast institution in Leningrad for the Russian Government. His is the plan for operating-room suites now used in big hospitals : two surgical rooms linked by a sterilizing and "scrub" room...
Southern Rebel. South of what was once the Mason and Dixon border, rebellion has been mixed up traditionally with conservatism rather than with reform. Lawrence Lee is a Jeffersonian Southerner, an Alabaman who went north to Albemarle County, Va.-"the world's one real county-in all the spiritual significance of that word"-where he studied at the University of Virginia, for a time was editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review. A skillful writer of fastidious pastoral verse, Lee has been thinking about Thomas Jefferson for so long that some of that Virginia gentleman's democratic magnanimity...
...history of New York City politics is as bumptious and cynical a saga as a combination of Damon Runyon, Ernest Hemingway, and Thorne Smith could concoct. Now that "The Little Flower" and "Reform" reign supreme, that saga of the Men of Tammany is fast becoming a glowing legend, another Homeric Age. A nostalgic reminiscence of things past is "The Great McGinty," the story of a bum who voted thirty-seven times in one election--on the right side--and became governor for his pains. As governor he went straight and had to get out of the country...