Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman used some dynamite last week to blast loose at least a part of his civil rights program. At his orders, Solicitor General Philip Perlman, in a speech in New York City, touched off the explosion. Henceforth, said Perlman, the Federal Housing Administration will not insure any loans made on private dwellings which are going to be restricted on the basis of race, creed or color. The policy may affect one-third of all new housing...
...Godkin Lecture Foundation was established in 1903 in memory of Edwin L. Godkin, editor of the New York Evening Post and of The Nation, and noted post-Civil War liberal...
...Senate, he is a member of the Banking and Currency, Post Office, and Civil Service Committees...
...Civil Service Commission, in issuing its first rule in 1884, recognized the right of every government employee to freedom of thought by stating, "no question . . . shall be framed as to elicit information concerning the political or religious opinions of any applicant...
...statistics released by the Bavarian Government last week document the shocking fact that former Nazi party members hold a majority of civil service posts in the more important state ministries. Anyone who read beyond the encouraging headlines on last summer's election for the first Federal Parliament knew the multitude of totalitarian splinter groups campaigning and electing in Bavaria. Yet last week, the Occupation lifted licensing regulations on political parties...