Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote Lyons: "Canadian officials aren't trying to reform their economic system. They are just keeping prices down." Key industrialists run price control: "The Government always has a businessman to take the rap when his industry howls . . . and the Government is tough to business. Their excess-profits...
...Says Barbara Ward, foreign editor of The Economist, in the July issue of Foreign Affairs, after a survey of what youthful Britons in the armed services are thinking: "Young opinion in Britain is radical. Young people in Britain want change. They see that the times are revolutionary. . . . They want reform and progress." Says the Common Wealth Manifesto: "There is no use in patching up a way of life that has changed into a way of death. We believe that British people will not turn back to the old world, but will pioneer toward a new social order...
...York--the only full-sized mixed dance band ever to work regularly at a night club. There were six Negroes and seven white musicians in that group, but the club was padlocked over an irregularity in the liquor license, and the band had to break up, never to reform...
...ground of expediency. Now the U.S. and Britain insisted that control over the French armed forces in North Africa must go to General Henri Honoré Giraud and not to General Charles de Gaulle, on the ground that it would be militarily dangerous to risk a sudden reform in the French army...
...with his own army, navy and air chiefs of staff. General de Gaulle remained as Commander in Chief of forces (90,000) elsewhere in the Empire, also with his own chiefs of staff. The two commanders and their staffs would operate as a committee to supervise military reform...