Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Less than two hours later at Canberra Airport waiting civil servants saw the big plane lumbering in difficulties. Its pilot seemed to be getting ready to make a pancake landing on the side of a hill. Suddenly the machine came down in a spin, landed on its nose, burst into flames which sealed all its distinguished occupants in death...
...region's power plants, dominates its economy by a strangle hold on the mate trade. For these Nazis, Misiones is strategically perfect. It curves up in a thin tongue of land between Paraguay and Brazil; its hills and rivers afford a series of natural defenses in case of civil war. Bounded on the north, east and south by heavily German-populated districts of Brazil, on the west by German nuclei in Paraguay, it is also a place from which Nazis can easily skip if Argentine police get after them...
Squeeze-Out? Meanwhile Army and civil officials were removed from high posts or shifted from important centres. Others, including Mexico's air ace General Alfredo Lezama, were arrested. Almazán-istas were dismissed from key posts in the telegraph, radio and telephone services. Political circles buzzed over a rumor that General Francisco J. Mugica, close personal friend of General Almazán, had been invited by U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels for a long conversation. General Mugica had been prominently mentioned as a compromise President to break the present deadlock...
...annoying fellow. A few weeks ago in the course of rehearsing a revue he introduced an acid skit on Mexican election scandals. Although his show had not yet opened, the Government promptly closed the Folies Bergere Theatre where Cantinflas holds forth. Protesting the ban as a violation of his civil liberties, Cantinflas spoke softly but sternly to a couple of officials, soon persuaded them that his followers would not permit the Government to gag him. The Folies Bergere reopened, with Cantinflas joyously needling the Government more sharply than ever. Last week, playing two shows daily, Cantinflas included in his revue...
Shakers were content to let the race die out pending the arrival of a new order, thought to keep their colonies going by taking in orphans and children of dissolute parents. It didn't work. Before the Civil War, the four big Shaker colonies had 6,000 members. Today there are about 75. Part of the colony at New Lebanon, N. Y., whose meeting house is supposed to be the only early building in the U. S. with a barrel roof, has been sold. The rest is for sale. But its dozen or so oldsters stay on. The sisters...