Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Second Revolutionary Law would have granted property...to all planters and squatters who hold parcels of less than five caballerias (166.7 acres)...and the state would indemnify the former owners over a period of ten years. (The bonds of Castro's Agrarian Reform are actually 20 year bonds...
Castro further proposed the nationalization of electric and telephone companies, the return to the people of all exorbitant amounts paid for electricity and telephones, the reform of the educational system (including making Camp Columbia, the military headquarters of Havana, into a school...
...There is little on the home front to justify our complacency," Williams continued. Further, letters received by Congressmen are generally useless, he complained. He mentioned that on the labor reform question thousands of letters were received citing Jack Paar as an authority...
...area and persuade them to come for an interview. "The first time one comes, whether or not he is three hours late, we pay him immediately in cash for coming." The payment of the subjects gives the experiment its unique twist. Street Corner Research does not try directly to reform juvenile delinquents, but treats the adolescents as employees and not as hoodlums...
...future, the experimenters hope to establish a permanent laboratory in human relations that would become a part of a working-class community. There are no stigmata attached to Street Corner Research, since it has no connection with juvenile courts or social service reform agencies. In its two years of operation, however, Street Corner Research has shown the value of a new approach to juvenile delinquency, one that may be emulated in the rest of the nation...