Word: reformers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...over. New Har mony, lodestar of dreamers and crackpots from all over the earth, was sold to a moon-faced cardsharp and forger who promptly opened a saloon in a handy cow shelter. Robert Owen went on, for 30-odd years, to preach the doctrine of equality, reform and free love to crowned heads and commoners all over Europe and to plan more Utopias...
...Rooseveltian press conference at its best was a needed girder in the U.S. democratic structure; it was, like its British counterpart, the Prime Minister's question period in the House of Commons, a chance for the people to ask questions of their Executive. This was a Roosevelt reform whose value newspapers of all political colors were agreed upon - and one they would fight to perpetuate...
...posts Tomás Confesor was both happy and busy. The long hideout had given him time to think of a lot that needed doing. His timetable of reconstruction and reform was a 25-year-plan for the Philippines...
...long record of enacting the measures for which its opponents have fought. With a popular demand from every family in Britain for a better home, employment, education and medical attention-and with Labor and the Liberals promising them-it was time for the Tory Party again to seize reform by the legislative handle...
...there is a great deal more than opportunism in Tory support for Lord Wool-ton's plans. The relatively youthful, forward-looking left wing of the Party-the Tory Reform Committee-which believes in the practical approach to progress, looks upon them with favor. The big industrialists, who have largely succeeded the old aristocracy as the backbone of the Tory Party, are also more than halfwilling...