Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What makes a President great? In plumbing the question, Professor Schlesinger noted that the six top Presidents were vastly different in appearance and temperament, but they had certain important things in common. All were identified with some crucial turning point in history. All took the side of progressivism and reform. None was a particularly good administrator. All were party men, and all but Washington had set their hearts on becoming President...
Would it not be wiser for America, then, to assist Chiang Kai-shek-outright, check the Commiunists' advance, and then support the liberals if you wish? Chiang is much easier to deal than the Communists, especially if you make military support to him conditional to his agreement to reform his government. . . . Oliver...
...very likely) the world's peace. Western Germany was what the "Berlin crisis" was all about. The Russians had imposed the Berlin blockade in a desperate attempt to prevent Western German recovery. This Russian plan failed. Just four months after the Western Allies introduced their great currency reform, Western Germany was on its feet again. Its revival was a notable triumph for German energy and for certain Western ideas, including free enterprise...
...whistles through the holes in bombed-out walls. (Windows are fixed with "Hitler glass," a kind of cellophane Hallstein acidly describes as "one of the big gifts this man gave to the German people.") The rector had planned to spend $250,000 this year on rebuilding Frankfurt, but currency reform wiped out the funds...
Shaw's solution is the reform of the language and the creation of a new alphabet "with 24 new consonants and 18 new vowels" and based on the rule of "One Sound One Letter." The layman, he warns, will resist change to the death; after having gone to the trouble of learning to spell cough and tough, he will not agree to relearn them even...