Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Advisory Committee on Civil Rights has been formed by a group of professors including Zachariah Chafes, Jr. Langdell Professor of Law; Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology; and Arthur N. Holcombe, professor of Government, to provide information and to give legal advice concerning the Selective Service...
However, this does not mean that such an objector is excused from registering, and the faculty Civil Rights Committee is urging all men to register no matter what their beliefs, not only because failure to do so will cause heavy penalties but also because any such failure will prevent later claims for exemption...
...students, accepted from over 30 eligible applicants for the Civil Aeronautics Authority's advanced training course, will start flying next week, William Bollay, C. A. A. instructor, announced yesterday...
...Government appointed the distinguished barrister and World War I veteran Henry Urmston Willink as Coordinating Commissioner for Rehousing to handle problems of getting bedding, furniture, etc., for the homeless. Sir Warren Fisher, who has served since 1919 as head of the entire British Civil Service, was appointed Coordinating Commissioner of Repairs to bomb-damaged water, gas, electricity, telephone and sewer services, as well as roads. Winston Churchill gave both his new Coordinating Commissioners dictatorial power over all local political authorities, public-utility companies and even over Government departments...
Irked by the ruling, students and facultymen prepared to hold a protest meeting. Meanwhile in Washington the U. S. Civil Service Commission, enforcing agency for the Hatch Act, seconded Attorney Calkins' opinion that the Hatch Act applied to land-grant colleges...