Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...shall make no pretense of noble motives. ... I frankly sought the opportunity to run for President on the Republican ticket because I have some deep-seated convictions I want to present . . . carry into execution. I know something about the democratic way of life . . . from experience. . . . I learned about civil liberties, not in textbooks, but in a hard struggle for survival. I know your aspirations and your hopes, because you're the kind of people I grew up with. If you elect me President, you will have someone who understands the everyday problems of everyday people. I have lived them...
Magna Charta was a document wistfully referred to in Britain last week. One by one cherished civil liberties were falling by the wayside. Last week Minister of Home Security Sir John Anderson introduced into the House of Commons a bill which proposed putting an end to the most sacrosanct right of all -trial by jury. The bill provided for special, emergency war-zone courts which could pass any sentence, including death. Sir John Anderson's Emergency Powers Act was already excuse for the Silent-Column arrests and trials. Wrote the News Chronicle: "Begging your pardon, Sir John, we would...
...Baptism of Fire was released "against British warmongers." With the fall of France, Germans in & out of uniform went hustling into Spain, where they were seen everywhere last week. Some went to villages behind Gibraltar, possibly to man the big guns covering it, installed by Nazis during the Spanish Civil War. Adolf Hitler also sent the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle to Francisco Franco and waited for him to speak...
...Chief of Staff, General Marshall is the man who will decide what the Army will do and how it will do it. Across his ornately carved desk (bought in Chicago and taken to Washington by bulletheaded Phil Sheridan after the Civil War) flow all the Army's plans, from building flying fields to modernizing tactics and weapons...
...island coves and inlets Pirates Morgan, Stede Bonnet and "Black-beard" Teach once lay in wait to raid New World shipping. From the Bahamas, Jamaica and Martinique, Civil War blockade runners made their night-bound, fog-shrouded dashes to Charleston and Wilmington. And in 1898, the Caribbean was invaded by an inept Spanish Fleet. It had the U. S. Atlantic seaboard in a dither of fright until old Admiral Cervera holed up in Santiago, Cuba, finally came out to have his ships shot down like ducks in a shooting gallery by a U. S. Fleet which was short on strategic...