Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After backing Manuel Avila Camacho as the less conservative of two conservative candidates to succeed him in 1940, Cárdenas watched his successor struggle with the snarls left by his own six-year "Mexico-for-the-Mexicans" reform plan. Last December he returned to public life as commander of the Mexican forces guarding Lower California and Mexico's west coast. Last week, on the same day that he spoke to Congress, President Avila Camacho invited ex-President Cárdenas back to the capital to become Minister of National Defense...
...Frenchman who committed sabotage or attacked Germans did not surrender within ten days, they would execute his grandfather, father, brothers, brothers-in-law and cousins (over 18). They added that they would send all women of the same degrees of kinship into hard labor, all children to reform schools...
...Congress against the Sanders Bill, which proposes sweeping changes in the communications act, one of which would split FCC into two divisions and strip the chairman of much of his authority. His major opponents are CBS and NBC, which consider Fly prejudiced and think he wants to reform them out of business; the National Association of Broadcasters, which Fly has delighted to compare to John Randolph's dead mackerel in the moonlight ("It shines and stinks"), and newspaper owners, whom Fly is frankly trying to keep out of the radio business for fear of a news monopoly...
...testimony before the House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee, Fly indicated that the Sanders Bill would hamstring reform, and declared, "If you want to turn this vast industry over to a couple of men in New York [presumably RCA President David Sarnoff and CBS President William Paley] you can go ahead...
...recoup by retiring. In a week he drove the British from Halfàya Pass, from Sidi Barrani, from Matrûh, from Fuka. Only at El Alamein, 70 short miles from Alexandria, were Rommel's men and tanks so exhausted that he had to pause to reform...