Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...First of all are the civil liberties of the individual summed up in the Bill of Rights. Second would be the political machinery which enables the mass of the people to decide through elected representatives on major issues. Third, the written laws and constitutions which, together with tradition, protect the rights of the minority on the one hand, and prevent sudden guests of popular opinion from altering the structure of society on the other...
...meetings of the pinko Church League for Industrial Democracy. Among its speakers were C. I. O. President John L. Lewis, American Youth Congress Chairman Jack McMichael (a lusty young radical now preparing for the ministry at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary), Director Roger Baldwin of the American Civil Liberties Union...
Divorced. George Grant Mason Jr., 36, wealthy socialite Civil Aeronautics Authority member; by blonde Washington socialite Jane Kendall Mason, 30, whom Grace Goodhue Coolidge called the "most beautiful girl ever to enter the White House"; after 13 married years; in Tampa...
...Hemingway found the great experience-The Spanish Civil War. This week he published the great novel-For Whom the Bell Tolls. He took the title from a passage by Preacher Poet John Donne: "No man is an iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, . . . any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls...
...Whom the Bell Tolls, unlike other novels of the Spanish Civil War, is told not in terms of the heroics and dubious politics of the International Brigades, but as a simple human struggle of the Spanish people...