Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Remarkable Reform. By 1947, some of the boys were running wild enough-gambling and crapshooting in dark corners of the Capitol-to make Congress yank the rein. The old school was replaced by the present District branch; an age limit of 14 to 18 was set; closer control was imposed on after-hours activities. At the same time, tuition was dropped, salaries boosted, and uniforms of all pages made uniform, except for the knee-breeches which the Supreme Court still requires...
...administration when it feels its prerogatives threatened is evidence that a base for democracy exists in South Korea. Along with their colorful squabbles, legislative and executive branches are also capable of cooperating to strengthen that base. This week's dispute did not halt work on the new land reform law which by a shrewd double play may give South Korea a large, stable class of small farm owners, plus a business class that it now lacks. During Japan's rule almost all Korean industry and large areas of choice farmland became Japanese-owned. Farm families...
...Garden of Faith. Long before this reform can be completed, South Korea faces immediate dangers. Farm production is not rising rapidly enough to feed 2,000,000 refugees from the north. Korea formerly had a closely knit economy, and both areas now suffer from the fact that the Communists do not permit trade across the border. The $150 million requested by Truman will be used mainly for raw materials and industrial products which formerly came from North Korea...
Died. Fernando de los Rios Urruti, 69, Socialist cabinet member and a founder of the Second Spanish Republic (1931-39); after long illness; in Manhattan. Following the bloodless overthrow of King Alfonso XIII (April 1931), De los Rios, as Minister of Justice, started a reform program (to break up the aristocracy's large land holdings) and tried unsuccessfully to separate church and state. As Ambassador to the U.S. (1936-39), he fought for U.S. aid to Republican Spain, went into exile when Franco won the Civil...
South of the Border. Racing was then at its lowest ebb in the U.S.; a reform movement had closed the sport in Chicago, then blacked it out in Memphis, New Orleans, Seattle and San Francisco, finally shutting it down (for two years) in New York. The only two major racing centers that were not affected were Maryland and Kentucky...