Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Civil War, in World War I, Massachusetts and Virginia during the Revolution, New York during the War of 1812, raised armies by conscription...
Announced aim of A. Y. C. (attacked by the Dies Committee, spanked by Mr. Roosevelt, coddled by his wife) is to give Youth a chance to shoot its mouth off, draw attention to its problems. Chief concerns were unemployment, war and peace, civil liberties. Chief distraction was Communism, which has plagued A. Y. C. for long...
...Japan Institute proclaimed the growing importance of Nippon as a world educational centre. The 300-odd non-Chinese foreign students, of whom ten are Americans and 126 are Siamese, were delving for the most part into such conventional fields as Oriental history and literature, science, medicine and civil engineering, but there were exceptions. Britain's Trevor P. Legett, for instance, had jujitsued himself into a ''scholarship for advanced practice, "is now rated capable of licking six ordinary adversaries simultaneously...
...Philadelphia Inquirer was sentenced to three years in Federal prison. His offense, of which he had pleaded guilty: evasion of $1,217,296 in income taxes in 1936. Still to be paid by Moe Annenberg in the biggest income-tax prosecution in U. S. history: $9,500,000 in civil penalties...
...Hugh Elles, Britain's civil defense chief, exhorted his countrymen: "As sure as God made little apples, we are going to get a lot more bombing. . . . It's the noise that frightens. . . . Don't be frightened. Be angry. It's a good cure." And Alfred Duff Cooper, the propaganda chief, quoted on the radio 42 lines of Poet Thomas Babington Macaulay's Armada, to remind the British how, with bonfires instead of blackout, they reacted to invasion once before...