Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Accepted the resignation of Edward Noble, Under Secretary of Commerce and organizer of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, and said: "In the event you find yourself with . . . free time on hand after November I trust you will let me know. . . ."A candidate for Senator in Connecticut this fall, Republican Edward Noble also came out for Willkie...
...British invasion had already burned part of the Capital. But he said: "The question is nothing less than whether the most essential rights of personal liberty will be surrendered, and despotism embraced in its worst form. . . . The people have too fresh and strong a feeling of the blessings of civil liberty. . . . Similar pretenses, they know, are the grave in which the liberties of other nations have been buried. . . ." Messrs, Wheeler, Clark, Vandenberg, Taft, Norris did their best to echo him last week...
Marshal Sperrle is the Prussian type-massive, heavy-featured, monocled. He flew in World War I, was shot down and severely wounded. He led the Condor Legion in the Spanish Civil War, where hundreds of Germany's best pilots received their battle training in relays...
Backstabbing, garroting, throat-cutting and decapitation are among the subjects taught at a progressive school of guerrilla warfare organized "somewhere in England" by Spanish Civil War Fighter Tom Wintringham and visited last week by Chicago Tribune's Guy Murchie...
...England: Indian Summer opens sombrely with America's Tragic Era, 1865. The Civil War - "Mrs. Stowe's war," Lincoln liked to call it - was won. The great and near-great figures of New England's flowering had been up to their transcendental ears in Abolitionism and underground railroading. But with the thrill of victory came a chill realization that it was not the same country. It was not even quite the same New England. The slave power was gone, but the bankers remained. Most of the young men were dead or gone West. The New England mind...