Word: reformist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about city politics from Manhattan of the 1890's. first as police reporter on the Evening Post, then as city editor of The Commercial Advertiser. His personal popularity with crooks and grafters, combined with unassailable integrity and a trenchant style, soon put him in the first rank of reformist journalism, in the forefront of those of whom his great & good friend Theodore Roosevelt dubbed "muckrakers." Steffens came into national prominence with his series in McClure's Magazine on the "shame of the cities": factual but highly colored articles exposing the corrupt politics of Philadelphia, St. Louis. Minneapolis, Pittsburgh...
...told the King," cried Reformist (i. e. Constitutionalist) Leader Melquiades Alvarez Gonzalez, "that it was useless to waste time trying to form any cabinet except one of men who want a new constitution...