Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Allied High Commission for Germany last week gave two sharp slaps to Western Germany's Bonn government: HICOM vetoed two laws, one on civil service and one on income tax, which had been adopted by Bonn's Parliament. The veto on civil service seemed to make more sense than the other...
After graduation, a student can usually get a small job with a mining or oil company, or in the Civil Service. Better-paying positions demand graduate work and a Master's degree...
...Power & Influence." The Big Blow moaned around Harry Truman's platform. No plank in it had been more loudly and insistently proclaimed than his plank on civil rights. An FEPC bill had been on the Senate calendar since October 1949. Scott Lucas had scheduled FEPC second on the legislative program this year (first: repeal of the oleo tax). Instead, Harry Truman and his Senate leader had let one bill after another run ahead...
...usual effect of such presidential pardons is to restore a convict's civil rights, but under the law of Massachusetts, Curley had not lost his rights. Nevertheless, from somewhere at sea, 75-year-old Jim Curley sent word to Harry Truman that he was "deeply grateful...
Besides many cases involving labor rights, and several anti-trust suits, the Court has some important civil rights decisions to make. It must decide whether the separate Negro law school that the University of Texas set up for Marion Sweatt is equal--Sweatt claims it is not. And the Court must rule whether George McLaurin is correct in stating that his rights have been abused by segregation at Oklahoma State University. The Henderson case, involving discrimination on southern railroads, is also still on the docket. Since the Court said in 1896 that separate facilities could be made equal, decisions...