Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCarthy's first priority was to have been the reform of the Democratic Party -a cause that would have gained considerably more momentum if there had been no bombing halt and if Humphrey's defeat had been worse. As it turned out, the cause lost some of its urgency; McCarthy, instead of being a major voice for reform, became more than ever a voice crying out in a wilderness of his own making. He will undoubtedly retain much emotional appeal for his followers, but inside the Democratic Party his real power-always limited-to work change is greatly...
There is no great distinction between working to reform the party from within or from the outside, Katz said. "Why get hung up with a little detail like that...
...CONSERVATIVES' strategy was unveiled this September. The Chamber of Commerce announced to its members that the November election has "particular significance for labor law reform." Employers "have much at stake," it said, "and the time to start protecting that stake...
First, business must arouse anti-union feeling among the public. "Before we can take action to introduce legislation seeking major labor law reform," said an NAM vice-president, "it is necessary to create the kind of favorable public climate which resulted in the Taft-Hartley and Landrum-Griffin Acts." According to plan, the public support and efforts of Congressional conservatives will push through the Congress a bill to abolish the Labor Board, which a Republican President will then sign into...
...aimed at two of the policyholders' biggest headaches: soaring premium rates and slow payment of claims. It was advanced at a time when the auto-insurance industry has come under the scrutiny of Congressional investigators and the Department of Transportation. Auto insurance is also the subject of a reform movement at more local levels, where most of the interest centers on a plan, devised by Law Professors Robert Keeton of Harvard and Jeffrey O'Connell of the University of Illinois, that has been proposed in various forms before the legislatures of ten states...