Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desk in the dark, mid-Victorian Governor's Mansion in Albany. He had a clear opening of the kind he likes: the President's own Harry Hopkins had just announced himself a convert to free enterprise and the use of taxes to stimulate business rather than reform it (see BUSINESS). Said Governor Dewey: "The highest New Dealers at last admit that this Administration has created an impossible situation...
...this decade, under the banners of reform, you have usurped our sovereign . power by curtailing the Bill of Rights, by short-circuiting the states, and by placing in the hands of a few men in executive commissions all the powers requisite to tyranny; and we, the people, say to you: we do not want monopolistic government, any more than we want monopolistic industry. Give us back the powers that our forefathers declared to be ours; liberate us to govern ourselves...
...Smith's philosophy was squarely at odds with the reckless public attitudes of his great years. He was devoutly religious, a family man who never went into nightclubs. The jazz age never won him away from songs like the Mulligan Guards. He toiled stubbornly for social reform. His life story had the old Horatio Alger plot. He was a poor East Side boy with an Irish gift for politics and people, who made good against tremendous odds...
...Hsien, which correspond to our countries. "The development of local government has been remarkably rapid during the war," he asserted. "Appreciable progress has been made also in mass education and agricultural and industrial cooperatives, and all this development of local self- government may well be considered the most significant reform carried out by the Chinese Government in recent years...
...weeks ago Chiang Kai-shek began to take steps to reform the draft machinery. One of his ablest generals, Chen Cheng, is pushing a reorganization of the Army, to abolish about a third of its theoretical divisions, so that henceforth Chinese Army units will be full strength...