Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...soldier or a gun. Eighty percent of the followers of Ho Chih-Minh are non-Communist nationalist, who could have been our anti-Communist friends has we not financed and supplied the war which denies their independence, but instead spent the same millions toward helping them reconstruct and reform their country...
Before World War II, the networks, it is true, did reform themselves up to a point. Advertising tactics which smacked faintly of blackmail (General Mills once suggested that a character in one of its shows would die for lack of medical attention unless more Wheaties were sold) were reluctantly abandoned...
...Walk Softly, Stranger" has less plot than a poor musical. Ostensibly, it is the tale of a gambler and petty thief who attempts to reform his life. After meeting the millionairess and developing the first symptoms of love, however, he is forced to team with one of his old buddies to pull one last job, a stickup of a gambling house. He is, of course, asking for it, and "it" almost catches up with him during the last reel. In the finale, he interrupts his now full-blown romance to spend three quiet years of atonement in prison...
...peninsula. In an eroded hilly region, about 40 miles wide and 100 miles deep, where three rich absentee families owned tens of thousands of acres, mostly idle or undercultivated, hundreds of impoverished peasant families are getting new land and new hope. Last week TIME Correspondent William Rospigliosi saw the reform in progress at Santa Severina, a village near Crotone. His report...
...Strictly Conditioned." President Truman promptly released the Bell report. Its recommendations: 1) increased taxation on high incomes and reform in the tax collector's office; 2) cutting up big estates for homesteaders, and production credits for small farmers; 3) encouragement for new industries; 4) two-year emergency tax of 25% on imports; 5) encouragement for trade unions; 6) higher civil service salaries, to reduce the temptation of graft; 7) U.S. to grant a $250 million loan, "strictly conditioned...