Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gimo might step down, giving way to the new brooms of a "reform" government (most likely head: Vice President Li Tsung...
Returning to their seats in the Chamber, they attacked the government for railroading the reform bill through the Congress before the country had a chance to study it. "We are watching the destruction of Parliament," cried Radical Deputy Alfredo R. Vitolo. "Remember a whole generation was lost in order that we should have this Constitution," warned Raul Urgana. Another Radical shouted: "We want a reform for the people and not for the President." From 4 o'clock in the afternoon until 2:50 the next morning the opposition fought a futile delaying action. Then the bill was passed...
Throughout Italy last week, many another sharp female tongue cut at strait-laced Minister of the Interior Scelba, and his month-old campaign for reform in dress. On city streets and sunlit strands, Scelba's conscientious cops cracked down on bra-top dresses and bathing suits. At Capri and the Lido, dazzling diapered beauties gazed nervously over their strapless shoulders, while the Socialist Avanti, affecting to hear the rustle of churchly robes behind the government's order, cried: "The first arrested will go down in history as martyrs...
...Vanquished. In Quebec's gloomy Reform Club, provincial Liberals surveyed their shattered organization, at its lowest ebb in 50 years. Duplessis' victory had pushed any hopes of dominion-provincial tax agreement off into the dim future. Along with Tory George Drew's recent victory in Ontario and Drew's open bid for national leadership, it gave the Drew-Duplessis axis a new and potent meaning...
...behave," Chicago teachers used to warn Negro pupils, "I'll send you to Dunbar." Ramshackle Dunbar Trade School on Chicago's South Side was little better than a reform school. Nobody preened himself on winning a Dunbar diploma, or stood much chance of landing a job with one. Then Clifford J. Campbell came along...