Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries put together. . . We took it almost for granted that science would confer continual boons and blessings upon us ... In the name of ordered but unceasing progress we saluted the Age of Democracy ... It was to ... tasks of social reform and social insurance that we addressed ourselves . . . The name of Lloyd George will ever be associated in Great Britain with this new departure...
...high time. The plan to create a democratic West German state had bogged down in a hopeless mess of confusion among the Western powers. The economic revival of Bizonia that followed currency reform (TIME, June 28) had no counterpart in the political field. The constitutional convention at Bonn was in deadlock. Cynicism and the old unwholesome, distorted German nationalism were spreading. More & more West German leaders were flirting with the idea of a deal with Russia...
...Other Face. Economically, West Germany has made great progress. The desperate food shortages of a year ago are gone; there is little hunger anywhere. Before the currency reform, West German production lagged at 51% of 1936; in nine months it has spurted up to 80%, surpassing the target set by ERP. Coal production is setting new postwar records...
...rake more muck.* Ida M. Tarbell went after the Standard Oil Co.; Ray Stannard Baker, incensed at the land-grabbing railroads, wrote The Railroads on Trial; Burton J. Hendrick spilled his Story of Life Insurance. When aroused state legislatures passed laws checking the excesses of big business, and reform candidates were elected to public office, "T.R." saw the light and grinned. He called S. S. McClure's crusading muckrakers to the White House to discuss trustbusting and business regulation. By 1905, McClure's, which claimed much of the credit for selling the public on T.R.'s spectacular...
...Angel knew too much to rush in. Instead, he formed a small club called the Casa Sacerdotal. Priests came to the club, ostensibly to prepare their Sunday sermons. Actually they discussed world problems in terms of the most advanced Catholic social thinking. The nucleus of this vest-pocket reform movement was a handful of priests...