Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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American answer: No reform, 58%; Reform, 32%; Undecided...
Matthiesson asked his audience, "Are we liberals; are we for racial equality in America? In 1936, people were thinking in terms of progressive reform, while now we have lost sight of those ideals due to the complications brought by the war. Is socialization to come...
...three years the London Times Educational Supplement and the Supplement's editor, energetic, fiftyish Harold Collett Dent, have been pitching thunderbolts, helping arouse the public until Parliament is cornered. A reform program, presented to Parliament by the head of the Board of Education, would use the first seven postwar years to create a system costing ?67,400,000 more annually, a more than 50% hike in the British education budget. Some proposed reforms...
Britain is in no mood, says Dent, to tolerate those who obstruct educational reform. The Manchester Guardian, too, warns M.P.s: ". . . The nation will not easily forgive...
...plane over St. Louis' Municipal Airport. A wing cracked, shredded into splinters. The glider plummeted crazily 1,500 feet to earth. Debris and bodies were thrown 50 ft. into the air. All ten passengers were killed instantly. Among them were St. Louis' 67-year-old reform Mayor William Dee Becker, Major William B. Robertson, pioneer aviation enthusiast and backer of Lindbergh's Paris flight, and other top city officials. The glider ride was the climax of a demonstration by the Army's Troop Carrier Command; the tragedy was watched by 4,000, including wives...