Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Big Business and Big Labor must call a halt to "socially destructive selfishness." The abuses of big labor should be rectified. But, said Luckman, the reformation of business must precede the reformation of labor. To reform itself, business must "stop making noises like a corporation." It must work to restore a sense of "togetherness" between management and labor. It must show that management and labor have the same interests by backing 1) decent minimum-wage legislation, 2) higher educational appropriations, 3) annual wage plans, 4) pension programs. It should do this, if for no other reason, because it paid...
...resistance movement, worked on resistance veteran Pertini in a series of secret meetings beginning in July. He got nowhere until mid-October, when Pertini began to waver. Longo's arguments included the charge that De Gasperi's government was dragging its feet on nationalization and land reform. Increasingly, Longo's case was helped by the West's blunders: Paris Conference treaty terms which Italians considered harsh and impossible to meet; failure of UNRRA shipments because of U.S. strikes; resentment at the cutting of Italian forests by Allied occupation authorities. All of these contributed to Italian disillusionment...
...blame? The conferees thought they knew the answer. Said Cleveland's Rev. Dores R. Sharpe, Baptist minister, ardent crusader for reform: "John Doe, private citizen, is the real culprit in this shame of democracy...
...rough & tumble standards of Mexican revolution, El Indio's life story is amazing. When his father left to join one of the revolutionary armies, Emilio, at nine, became head of the family. Practically at once he shot and killed a man for molesting his mother. Hustled into a reform school, he escaped and joined the revolution himself. He fought under General Carranza against Pancho Villa, was captured, sentenced to die at dawn and escaped from a drunken guard. Later he fought with Obregón against Carranza, then against Obregón for General de la Huerta. Jailed again...
After starting down the merry way to constitutional reform with much fanfare and high hopes of releasing drafts of a proposed constitution within five or six weeks, the Council Constitutional Committee now appears to be bogged down in a mire compounded of organizational difficulties and November hour exams...