Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made a fighting speech; decried the lagging steps the U.S. has taken toward preparing for the peace. Turning to Britain's Ambassador, Lord Halifax, he said that the U.S. will have to go far and fast before it catches up on social progress, social reform and the common understanding and working partnership between the richer and poorer classes which has been England's by-product of the war. Then Norris very simply thanked Guffey and all who "have said so many nice things about me" and sat down. He wasn't crying. He was more determined than...
Convinced that an Allied invasion of southern Europe is not only imminent but highly desirable, Smuts needs to extend the area where his troops can operate. So he last week called for parliamentary reform of South Africa's 1912 Defense Act. On the wave of patriotism following the recapture of Tobruk, Smuts cried that South Africans must now rescue 12,000 of their countrymen held prisoners in Italy. He was well aware of the attacks he would face from his two leading opposition parties: Dr. Daniel François Malan's antiwar, pro-Nazi Herenigde...
...home is the largish, comfortable, book-filled Master's House at University College, Oxford, but he spends much time in his cell-like London Government office, living in a basement Reform Club where, since the blitz bombed him out, he sleeps comfortably in a passage...
...futilities and the dangers of holding that "social reform can wait until after the war" are amply demonstrated by the present excitement in Britain over Sir William Beveridge's monumental report on social security. When the war began, Laborites were admitted to a Coalition Cabinet on condition that they refrain from raising "controversial" issues until after the war. Sir William, to put it mildly, has scattered many a cracker-crumb into the couch of Britain's political bedfellows. His ideas have won such widespread support that the Labor Party has decided to fight here and now for Parliamentary enactment...
...Caribbean in the Golden Age of piracy. Hero is one Jamie-Boy Waring (Tyrone Power), who stands by his old captain, Henry Morgan (Laird Cregar), when Morgan decides to reform and put his buccaneering ex-mates out of business. Villain is Captain Leech (George Sanders, in a beard like a bonfire), also one of Morgan's raiders. The Black Swan is unreformed Captain Leech's pirate ship. Heroine is Lady Margaret Denby (Maureen O'Hara), daughter of Jamaica's ousted Governor...