Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Other decrees provided for the removal of any civil servant deemed unworthy of his post, and stipulated that Government jobs or commissions in the Army and Navy could be held henceforth only by persons whose fathers were French citizens. The word "Jew" was not mentioned in a single decree, but "Jews not wanted" signs began to appear in shop windows...
...Songs for Democracy (The Music Room, No. 133 West 44th St., Manhattan). Rousing collection of proletarian war songs in German, French, English, Spanish, written, rendered and recorded by members of the Eleventh International Brigade during the Spanish Civil...
...safety," President Wyatte Dawson Guthrie of Long Island's Roosevelt Field fortnight ago ordered no more flying there in training planes weighing less than 1,500 pounds. His order provoked a crisis in four flying schools which were training 135 college boys and girls as part of the Civil Aeronautics Board's nationwide pilot-training program for U. S. youth. Safair Inc. promptly grabbed National Airport at nearby Hicksville for its 60 students. The other three schools pooled their resources, graded, reconditioned, and in record time christened the East Meadow Auxiliary Field. There last week their students were...
Tommy Crump was a sergeant in the Minnesota Volunteers during the Civil War. In 1865 he enrolled in Seabury Divinity School in Faribault (pronounced Farribo), Minn., but a stoutly martial heart still beat beneath his cloth. Observing that the boys in the preparatory department of the Divinity School were undisciplined, Tommy Crump took to drilling them in the afternoons, using sticks as muskets, into the first cadet corps in any secondary school in the U. S. Minnesota's Episcopal Bishop Henry B. Whipple turned away from the Indians long enough to persuade the War Department to detail a regular...
...Upon its transfer into the Department of Commerce June 30, the CAA became the Civil Aeronautics Board...