Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...with his suspenders loose and his eyes glinting with bitterness, Patterson said hopefully that he couldn't believe Michigan would send him back to Alabama. "Alabama is the rottenest place in the world," said he. "They make criminals there . . . Hell, they [want] to kill me." The Communist-line Civil Rights Congress put up $5,000 to get him out on bail. But unless he can fight extradition, he will be sent back to Alabama, which figures that Haywood Patterson still owes the state 57 years of his life...
...want your wife or daughter eating at the same table with Negroes," warned a newspaper ad, "vote for Graham." Graham, onetime president of the University of North Carolina, tried his quiet best to point out that, though he had been a member of Harry Truman's Civil Rights Committee, he himself was opposed to the compulsory clauses of FEPC...
Visitors to Russia who insist on saying "Spasibo" ("Thank you") for services rendered reveal themselves to knowing Russians not only as foreigners but as class enemies. The good Soviet citizen avoids such courtesies. In Russia's October Revolution and the bloody civil war, the Bolsheviks learned that one way to spot an enemy was to listen to his speech. A cultivated diction and politeness were the caste marks of the bourgeoisie; polite speech, like the bourgeoisie, soon went out of fashion...
...Thing to Fear. Spain's Civil War was hard on the Corvillon family. Because they stayed at their jobs in Loyalist Madrid they were in the Franco government's Dad books when the war ended. Benito's father was fired, and Benito himself was thrown into jail without trial or specific charges. For nine months he was awakened each morning by the firing of execution squads, wondering if he would be next...
...Louisiana federal court, the Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust suit against the two Nicholson newspapers, Publisher Nicholson and three top executives. Specifically, the Times-Pic and the States were accused of unfairly attempting to eliminate their only competitor by 1) forcing advertisers to buy space in both Nicholson papers at a special combined rate, 2) giving advertisers unreasonably low rates in the States based on their ad volume in the Times-Pic, 3) persuading newsstands to stop selling the Item by threatening to withdraw the Times-Pic and the States. Publisher Nicholson's only comment...