Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...read the whole document through, the delegates knuckled down to their task. Taking no chances whatever, Hopkins & Co. had commandeered Senator Lister Hill of Alabama to nominate Franklin Roosevelt for Term III. Balding, melodramatic Senator Hill laid his ears back and bayed in a manner so floridly reminiscent of Civil War Days that editorials in Southern newspapers blushed for Southern shame for days afterward...
Lord Craigavon, plain-spoken Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, announced that he and Prime Minister Eamon de Valera of independent Eire had been unable to agree on a united defense program for Britain's western back door. Mr. de Valera feared touching off a civil war if, before the Germans came, he let in British soldiers or let the Royal Navy reoccupy its old bases at Berehaven, Lough Swilly and Cobh. The British Army massed troops to rush across the Irish Sea when the hour struck, and R. N. calmly announced new minefields from Scotland to Iceland to Greenland...
...prevented the roads from using lightweight, streamlined equipment made by competitors. Caught in the suit's 80-page web were Pullman Directors J. P. Morgan, Harold S. Vanderbilt, Richard K. Mellon, Alfred P. Sloan Jr., George Whitney, others-as potent a list of defendants as ever graced a civil action. (Since the Government, through reports filed with ICC, has long been aware of the practices to which it is objecting, Trustbuster Arnold considered a civil action "more appropriate" than a criminal...
Many a delegate who stayed was no better pleased with the way things went inside A. Y. C. Franklin Kramer, from the All-Campus Peace Federation of the University of Wisconsin, tried to get the Congress to denounce the suppression of civil liberties in Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, the invasion of Finland. Not a chance. Complained Mr. Kramer: "I'd like to see a little deviation from the Communist Party line. . . . We never can attack the sacred cow of Russia or of Communism...
...overly worried about his future was Earl Brown last week. A political influence in Harlem, he has friends in New York's Democratic administration. Recently he served on a special committee, appointed by Governor Lehman to study ways and means of reducing noncompetitive civil service jobs, with such bigwigs as Lieutenant Governor Charles Poletti (a classmate at Harvard), onetime New York State Commissioner of Correction Edward Mulrooney, and Mrs. Douglas Moffat, former president of the New York State League of Women Voters...