Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Bill. Conferees had ironed out differences between the House's version of the Excess Profits Bill and the Senate's. Congress hoped to pass it this week. Passed by the Senate and sent to conference was the Ramspeck Bill, which permits the President to fold into the Civil Service system approximately 200,000 Government employes through noncompetitive examinations. Congressmen were beginning to see some hope of adjournment when, at week's end, came news of the Axis-Japan pact...
Sidestepping the issue of passive resistance as skillfully as a temple dancer, Saint Gandhi ordered his followers to obey laws and cooperate with the Government while he visited the British Viceroy to "seek permission to preach nonparticipation in war." Nonparticipation, he warned his followers, was no prelude to mass civil disobedience, but fearing that without some action to push Indian independence the masses would desert him, he compromised: "I don't want to order civil disobedience. I favor individual disobedience." The wily Saint knew that individual disobedience, lacking organization, would amount to nothing. The independence movement, he admitted, could...
...through the main body of Alaska is the airport system of Pan Am's sourdough subsidiary, Pacific Alaska Airways. Bossed by Alaska Veteran Joe Crosson, P.A.A.'s pilots operate in & out of Fairbanks, Whitehorse, Burwash Landing, Tanana Crossing, Ruby, Nome, McGrath, Ophir, Flat and Bethel. To help civil aeronautics and, in the long run, the defenses of the northwest frontier, the Civil Aeronautics Bureau is dotting Alaska with emergency fields, installing radio range stations for navigation at night and in bad weather...
When Congress passed the first U. S. peacetime conscription bill, many a businessman fretted over troubles it might make for him. His chief worry was: the Act contains a provisional moratorium on draftees' debts. It re-enacts the Soldiers' & Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1918, which permits the courts to postpone draftees' obligations (depending on their ability to pay). In Congress now are bills giving conscripts additional relief from taxes, rent, insurance. But by last week, having studied the draft, most businessmen decided it would not make them as much trouble as they had feared...
...first International Brigades marched into the Spanish Civil War, shouting: Spain is the grave of fascism. It turned out to be the grave of most of the Internationals. They had almost no arms, often no rations. They were refugees from Germany and Italy, workingmen and intellectuals from France and Belgium, men without identification papers, passports, even names. Most of them were Communists, but there were few Russians among them. They believed they were fighting to save democracy from fascism. In their political innocence and lack of military equipment, they were determined, if necessary, to make a living barrier of their...