Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...draft, pay a substitute to serve for him, or buy his way out once he is in service. Nor can the U. S. offer special bounties to any conscript or volunteer. Reason: the Army's doleful experiences with bounties, substitutes, and attendant corruption in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars...
General Almazán was obviously getting ready to push the shaky civil peace a notch closer to open war. Ever since election day he had left his followers dangling and disorganized while he "vacationed" in Havana, then in Guatemala. Fortnight ago he was still on tour, turned up in Mobile, two days later in Baltimore, where he took a modest apartment on quiet 32nd Street with his wife and 17-year-old daughter. He insisted that he was just a tourist. He visited friends, walked in Wyman Park, went to the movies, read U. S. and Mexican newspapers, answered...
...commission's new version of the marriage canon still forbids Episcopalian marriage for divorced persons, still provides that anyone remarried by a civil ceremony "shall forfeit his or her status as a Communicant." The new feature is a provision that "he or she may apply to any Minister of the Church . . . for the restoration of such status and for a blessing upon their union. The Minister . . . shall then lay the petition and his findings be fore the Bishop. . . . In case of a favorable judgment, the Minister in his discretion may bless the parties to the union, using such parts...
...education authorities, reluctant to permit the contest at all, drew the line at prizes, allowed only Awards of Merit. Said the publicity adviser of the campaign: "Five-or ten-shilling prizes would have made a tremendous difference to the 60 successful kids. But there are more corpses in the Civil Service than on any battlefield...
...Howards of Virginia (Columbia-Frank Lloyd). Hollywood's sense of history is a bit erratic. Its preoccupation with the Civil War has left the impression that Abe Lincoln was the father of his country. The magnificent material to be found in America's small beginning has been almost entirely neglected since talking pictures arrived. Not until early this year, when veteran, British-born Director Frank Lloyd began shooting The Howards at Williamsburg, did any major director train his camera on the Founding Fathers. In The Howards of Virginia Director Lloyd presents their era in an able, slow-moving...