Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Psychology, works with the Civic Unity Committee, a group engaged in combatting prejudice. Dean Hudnut helped plan the Cambridge War Memorial at the Council's request, and Professor Alfred D. Simpson of the School of Education prepared the report which has been the basis for Cambridge public school reform since...
...public services are much more efficiently managed than during the civil war. Inflation has been checked, largely because taxes are more ruthlessly collected. Official bribery has undoubtedly decreased (because Communists are by nature more susceptible to the corruption of power than to corruption by money). No significant systematic land reform has taken place. There have been some paper land-reform measures, plus a sort of reform by political boodle, i.e., some supporters of the Reds have grabbed property owned by enemies of the Reds. The Communist propaganda hold on the lower and middle schools is increasingly effective. Many...
Roll, appointed Chairman of the Economic Survey Mission sent to the Philippines last summer by President Triman, remarked the serious condition of the Philippines government and its need for financial reform before receiving any more America...
...going to correct conditions . . . What do you want us to do? It wasn't his fault. Not any more than it was ours. It was an accident." Joe paused, and there was a note of bitterness in his voice. "And you're not going to reform him by sending him to jail for a long time, judge." Judge Leibowitz looked surprised. The blue-ribbon jury (all men) leaned forward...
Thirty-two commuters had been killed last winter when two Long Island trains crashed head-on at Rockville Centre (TIME, Feb. 27). Wild and angry demands for reform had been raised, but the Long