Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inevitably, the proponents of the mode, the counter-mode, the eclat-du-jour, whatever it might be. There would be a mass of realists, as they are called, "magic" or otherwise, and a crowd of abstractionists, enchanted or unenchanted in like fashion. There would be the hawkers of social reform, the psychological brooders, those of the dark palettes, and so forth. In short, there would be a pot-pourri of most everything. Feininger invariably survived the tempest as one of the few who indeed justified it. Those interested parties among us who eagerly engage the democratic process in support...
...accuracy less and less requisite in their campaigns. Vice-President Nixon might well be correct in saying, "The public memory is very short," but he and his party are insulting the voters' intelligence in proclaiming that the Democratic Party was responsible for the defeat of the Kennedy-Ives labor reform bill...
...wishes of most organized labor, these three Republican dominated organizations conducted their campaign to a group of Congressmen mindful of campaign contributions in the forthcoming election. Seventy-seven per cent of House Republicans voted against the bill, while seventy per cent of House Democrats voted for the labor reform bill. Consequently, the bill did not pass...
...rural Japan is no longer the place the elders knew. First break in the age-old pattern of peasant poverty came with the land-reform law imposed on Japan by General Douglas MacArthur...
Constitutional reform is not a panacea, but a prerequisite; and if the new bottle receives only old wine, one of the last French illusions--faith in the unlimited possibilities of constitutional engineering--will be shattered...