Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Shuksan outing last week went three competent climbers: H. Karl Boyer, 28, of Seattle, who fought in the Spanish Civil War; Anne Cedarquist, 22, a chemist who once climbed California's hazardous Lassen Peak; Faye Plank, 37, a Bremerton librarian. Miss Cedarquist had climbed Rainier twice this year, Boyer once. They expected to be up to Shuksan's peak and safely down by nightfall...
Chief reason why NDAC has been able to thread a decisive way through Washington mazes is that its guide (and secretary) is a veteran civil servant named William Henry McReynolds. Reputed to know more about the ins & outs of the vastly proliferated Government structure than any man in Washington, leisurely "Mac" McReynolds is as deadly accurate as George Marshall would like his officers to be. Scottish and canny, he has worked in every department of the Government as payroll employe or efficiency expert since he left his law office in Battle Creek 34 years ago. For Herbert Hoover he helped...
...company-its personnel upped from 62 to 90, $4,500 in the till to pay the difference between Guardsmen's camp pay and their regular salaries. At Joseph Hogan's private airport, excavation work was under way to turn it into a military field for the civil aeronautics training program. Awaiting only a Government go-ahead signal were 400 unemployed young men to take initial courses in shop and foundry work and advanced technical skills...
...Ministry in the Louvre Palace last week he found a strange contrast to the days when France was a banking power. Instead of financial kings, industrialists, foreign statesmen and Oriental potentates, his anterooms and the entrance to the Palace were crowded with anxious officials demanding back salary, retired civil servants wanting overdue pensions, and worried captains of industry begging for credit to get their factories going. "People expect miracles," remarked...
Totting up its balance sheet for 1939-40, the American Civil Liberties Union last week reported that only seven movies ran afoul of State or local censorship in the U. S. last year. The seven: Birth of a Baby, the French film Harvest, the U. S. Public Health Service's Fight for Life, Strange Cargo and Primrose Path (these two notable because they were produced by major Hollywood studios whose self-censorship is usually effective), Birth of a Nation (Negro trouble in Denver), and an anti-Nazi blast variously entitled Hitler, The Beast of Berlin, Goose Step...