Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...election have canceled all interest in the A. F. of L. -C. I. O. feud. That is not the case among the men of labor. Last week they read the sharpest, most detailed and unsparing record of that costly battle that has yet seen print-Labor's Civil War, by Herbert Harris (Knopf; $2.50). Two years ago young (34) Historian Harris established his right to be heard on these matters when he published a factual, informative, detached book, American Labor, that summed up labor's story. There is nothing detached about Labor's Civil War. Like some...
...Methods." Not Iong ago a civil servant who had just been transferred to the Ministry of Aircraft Production expressed the general complaint against the Ministry. "You'd hardly believe the appalling state of this office," said he. "The place is a complete chaos." Somebody asked: "Isn't the Beaver producing the planes?" "Oh, yes," said the complainant, "he's producing them all right. But, my dear fellow, the methods! They're dreadful...
...Italian Libya (area: 461,202 sq.mi.; population: 549 whites, 1,432,000 natives). Lake Chad, on its western frontier, is an important junction of caravan routes, and a well-equipped air field at its capital, Fort-Lamy, makes it a desirable prize. Leader of the Chad revolt was black Civil Governor Adolphe Felix Sylvestre Eboue, French-educated rugby player whose administrative ability so impressed his superiors that he landed the only French governorship held by a Negro. Having lined up a small garrison of colonial troops, Rebel Eboue proclaimed allegiance to General de Gaulle: "... The people of Chad will defend...
...civil cemetery of the Federal District of Mexico in a grey steel casket went the body of Leon Trotsky. It was taken out of the casket, placed on a heavy steel cart. The cart was wheeled to a huge crematory, the door was opened, the body pushed in. The glare from the open door of the furnace shone with ghastly brilliance on the faces of Trotsky's three bodyguards, on duty to the end, of his attorney, Albert Goldman, and of the small, meek, devoted woman who had lived with him as wife and servant for 38 years...
...Sherman Act's "vagueness" (favorite corporation lawyer's complaint), Arnold installed his own definition of trade restraints, his own prosecuting technique. Instead of busting merely big corporations, he went after all industrial situations where he smelt a fishy price. Usually he brings criminal rather than civil actions. If his victims reform their ways thoroughly enough, Arnold then sometimes signs with them a consent decree, nol-pros the criminal action. High-minded businessmen like General Motors' Alfred Sloan (who fought a criminal suit in court rather than sign away G. M.'s profitable sales-financing subsidiary) regard...