Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...materials, freedom, nourishment, Lebensraum, the basis for social reform of our state and the opportunity of full development for the Axis powers. If we lose, all this, this and still more, will be lost-namely, our whole national existence...
...Heel Editor. An oldfashioned, liberal statesman is Josephus Daniels. Born in the second year of the Civil War, he grew up in the age of trust-busting and reform, became a disciple of William Jennings Bryan. As owner and editor of the Raleigh News & Observer, he fought the railroads, fought the power companies, feuded with the tobacco barons who made North Carolina rich...
...Roosevelt sent his old Chief to Mexico in 1933, there were riots in Mexico City. Mobs stormed the streets, plastered angry posters on walls. But Mexicans quickly calmed down when they saw Josephus Daniels, heard his speeches, realized that he was an oldtime apostle of free silver and agrarian reform...
David Fenwick is duped by the cheap, voluptuous city-girl whom he marries, forgetting what it's like to be weaned on coal-dust, and sacrificing his ideals of mine-reform for the frustrating and impotent life of schoolmaster in his native hamlet. Novelist Cronin is a scientist, and the generally powerful plot of this movie goes back to his painstaking delineation of character. But when scenario-writers-in the inconceivably heroic turnabout of the mine-owner, Barras, and again in a superfluous and mystical epilogue-attempt to expand a stirring argument for public ownership into a vague essay...
...local officials from all over China, fed his sweltering delegates lemon pop, tea, cake, pastry, explained the law, sent them home. All summer from dawn to midnight, in Chungking's offices and dugouts, Kung's bomb-battered underlings pieced together the machinery of China's greatest reform in centuries. Chiang Kai-shek quietly increased the local gendarmes all through Szechwan, just in case there was trouble...