Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dark Command (Republic) continues Hollywood's efforts to vary the pattern of its western thrillers by substituting the American Civil War for Indian raids. Last installment was Warner's Virginia City. This one takes place in Lawrence, Kans., circa 1860, spectacularly chronicles the misdeeds of Outlaw Quantrell, Kansas' Civil War guerrilla, here thinly disguised as Outlaw Cantrell (Walter Pidgeon). Thrilling shot: the wagon, in which Claire Trevor, Roy Rogers and John Wayne are escaping the bad man, hurtling at breakneck speed off a high Kansas cliff...
...settling the frontier. Bates gives a clear account of these and other sects, of the political forms that grew from their beliefs and necessities, of the Utopian demo cratic optimism shown in the Shaker communes and Brook Farm experiments of the early 19th Century. His book closes with the Civil...
Attacking the conditions in the R.O.T.C., the Chairman of the Civil Liberties Committee of the Harvard Student Union yesterday sent a letter to the C.I.O., A. F. of L., American Youth Congress, American Student Union National Office, and Senator Robert M. LaFollette...
WASHINGTON--Attacks on President Roosevelt's order placing the Civil Aeronautics Authority under the Commerce Department and abolishing the Air Safety Board were answered by the Chief Executive with a biting statement in which he said firmly that the order will stand...
...army reserves and the navy reserves are organized on the same theory, that of providing a trained civil populace to form around the regular army in a time of what both the War Department and the Department of the Navy refer to euphemistically as "national emergency...