Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Land Reform...
...paved the way for land reform; the estates of the old gentry had been bought and resold to 5,000,000 new, small, independent holders. It had given Japanese politics a new look; at parliamentary elections for the first time in history, candidates for office had gone hat in hand to solicit votes from ordinary folk...
...which had been one of Huey Long's pet projects ("[I'm] the Chief Thief for L.S.U.!"), it was a tall order. But it was just what the L.S.U. Board of Supervisors had in mind. For months during 1947, the 14 supervisors, most of them appointees of "reform" Governors Sam Houston Jones and James Houston Davis, had been looking for an out-of-state educator who was neither a veteran of past L.S.U. ruckuses* with Huey Long or his political heirs, nor a henchman of Huey's brother Earl, who is now governor of Louisiana...
Deans v. Consensus. But in two years, even Stoke was not able to reform everybody. Some deans still take a dim view of his new "administration by consensus," call it "administration by passing the buck." Governor Long backed a constitutional amendment last November to bring the L.S.U. Board of Supervisors under his thumb. The amendment lost, but Louisiana recently began to hear, and read in newspaper columns, that the Supervisors themselves were set to bounce Harold Stoke. Then, went the story, L.S.U. might get a Louisiana man again as its president...
...Reform Ticket. In Williba, Ky., Democratic Candidate Clennie Hollon, campaigning for State Representative, promised voters he would 1) make it illegal for a cattle dealer to misrepresent the age of a cow by more than three years; 2) put a dollar limit on all poker bets; 3) give children the authority to send their parents to school...