Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conditions under which men serve in Civilian Public Service camps [justify] protests and reform. The men are not given work of national importance as prescribed by Congress. Although granted a status by law equivalent to that of soldiers, they receive no pay, no dependency allowances, no compensation for injuries...
...three years India had been in a state of suspended political animation. Some 3,000 nationalists were in jail,* their pleas for Indian independence silenced by the fiat of the British Raj that constitutional reform must wait till the war is won. Three years after Sir Stafford Cripps's mission, Hindus (the Congress party) and Moslems (the Moslem League) were still unable to agree on his plan for postwar Dominion status. They were also unable to agree with one another. But last week India was stirring uneasily...
...Line. In Placer County, Calif., two young thieves were sentenced to the State reform school at lone, turned down because the school already had a waiting list of 125 juvenile delinquents, turned loose to wait their turn...
...pioneering Antioch College and onetime chairman of TVA. He readily admits that Bellamy's projected social system "would result in actual regimentation" and, if administered by the wrong officials, "might be a terrible incubus on society." But Looking Backward was a warmhearted vision which unquestionably speeded social reform in the U.S. and throughout the world...
...nobody really thought Peoria would become Illinois' holy city if Laundryman Triebel beat the Democratic nominee, Tom Madden. One of Triebel's backers on The Bluff, the town's fashionable residential section, made it plain that even reform is liberal in Peoria. Said he: "We've got to have control, here. Gambling will be supervised and the prostitutes will have to be licensed...