Word: reformist
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...quiet rose mild Mrs. Thelma Cazalet Keir, veteran Tory reformist and sister of the late Major Victor Cazalet, killed in the plane crash that brought death to Poland's Premier-General Wladyslaw Sikorski. Mildly she proposed an amendment granting equal pay to women teachers. Gently the Government's respected Richard Austen Butler, President of the Board of Education, objected that equal pay had nothing to do with the Education Bill, should be considered at some other time...
...Author. Lillian Smith is a vehement, forceful, articulate spokesman for a new Southern reformist movement that still needs to be explicitly defined. Of medium height, youthfully middleaged, with her prematurely grey hair piled high above her 'high forehead, she reached literary work and social reform way of music teaching in a Methodist missionary school in China, secretaryship to a city manager in Georgia, running the swanky girls' summer camp her father founded in Clayton, Ga., and editing a literary magazine...
...Bloody, Bold and Resolute." Editor Dent, the son of a nonconformist preacher, has given the Times's still ponderous, now reformist educational supplement more influence in England than any general educational magazine has in the U.S. He likes to quote Shakespeare: "Be bloody, bold and resolute," and he has a popular cause in Britain's war-born determination that higher education shall not be confined to England's moneyed classes...
...President's middle-of-the-road political philosophy ("not to make somebody poor to make somebody else rich"), but to the Indian there is still only one man whose voice is magic. He is another Indian, a man born to poverty who became a great revolutionist, a fireball reformist and an enduring popular hero-Lázaro Cárdenas...
...other British face toward India has been liberal, reformist, seeking to redress imperialism's economic and personal ravages. Steadily through the years India has been championed by such Englishmen as Edmund Burke, who in 1788, speaking of the great Indian empire builder, Warren Hastings, said: "Was there ever heard, or could it be conceived, that a man would dare to mention the practices of all the villains, all the mad usurpers, all the thieves and robbers in Asia, that he should gather them all up, and form the whole mass of abuses into one code and call...