Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Target Elusive. None of this was very exciting. As every city boss knows, candidates should make great promises, roar for reform or sail into their opponents, particularly incumbent opponents. Frankensteen found that attacking his opponent, Mayor Edward J. Jeffries, was disconcertingly like shadow boxing. In six years as mayor, Jeffries had done little, had made few bad mistakes...
...much the Budapest radio told the outside world last week. After that, silence. No names were given, either of marauders or victims. In the U.S., the leftist press suspected that rightist elements were fighting land reform. In other areas of opinion it was suspected that Communists were fighting the Small Holders Party (small landholders) which currently has the upper hand among the five parties supporting the Miklos Government...
...S.H.P. likes land reform, but it also distinctly favors private land ownership. By classic standards it is slightly left of center, but it comprises the right wing of the present democratic bloc, and it is nonsocialist. The S.H.P. recently gained urban strength in the Budapest municipal elections, and it was expected up to last week-to gain rural strength in the national elections...
...gagged. Citizen Perón took to the air, intimated that he might run for the Presidency in the April 7 elections, just announced by President Edelmiro Farrell. Perón also told Argentine workers, whose salaries he had raised before leaving office, that he would fight for social reform, that the day might come "when I will...
Last week Schuman planned his first reform: the addition of courses like sociology and race-relations to Juilliard's harmony and counterpoint curriculum. This, he hopes, will "make responsible adults of musicians." He explained: "Right now, when we need musical leaders in every community, we are concerned only with training virtuosi for a nonexistent market. Musical education has to be ventilated. We must develop educated people who are musicians in order to develop music...