Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policy toward China had been stalled at dead center for nine months. Last January George Marshall's parting advice, after 13 months in China, had called for major Chinese self-reform before any further U.S. assistance to the Chinese Government. When President Truman sent Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer to China in Marshall's footsteps this summer, the Chinese thought that the U.S. might be getting ready to act. But last week, U.S. policy still seemed stuck...
Acts of God. Mexico, one of the most confident of Latin American countries, is full of the desire for better food, better education, more comforts. That is the legacy of the Revolution. But its hopes are still far from fulfillment. Land reform is 30 years old-but Mexico does not yet raise enough food to feed itself. War-born industries are wobbly. Unemployment is growing. Furthermore, in recent months, nature has been anti-Mexican. Aftosa, the destructive foot-&-mouth disease, has crippled the basic cattle industry. A locust plague has stripped the Tehuantepec Isthmus. There has been widespread drought. There...
From 1812 to 1818, Peacock gyrated in the circles of vegetarians, astrologists, freethinkers and other cranks who trailed his friend Percy Bysshe Shelley. Laughing uproariously at their disputes over how to reform the world, he got the notion of putting them into a novel. The result, Headlong Hall (1816), permanently settled the question of Peacock's proper pursuit...
...alumni, like to feel that our alma mater is not a place to reform "bad boys," but a school of opportunity for boys who need a chance. . . . Maybe I am quibbling with words but the shift of emphasis is important to me and to my fellow alumni. Most of us are proud of having been connected with such a worthwhile school. . . . W. E. STEPHENSON Chicago
With a producer and a narrator he probed into the South Side slums, visited reform schools, penitentiaries, settlement houses; he brought back tape-recorded interviews with underworld characters, memoirs of seasoned convicts, advice from judges and social workers. The most effective talk came from the Dead Enders themselves...