Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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TIME, May 20, "Death of a Correspondent," p. 62: "He saw the Alcazar fall in the Spanish Civil...
Born in 1822, died in 1924, Cornelius Cole helped make California an anti-slavery State, and went to the U. S. Senate after the Civil War. Eighteen years ago, on Senator Cole's looth birthday, Paul Hoff man had heard him speak. Said Hoffman: "He declared that human liberties were won in this country at a tremendous sacrifice of blood and fortune; that we must be ready to fight again, if necessary, to preserve them. 'Remember, gentlemen,' he said, 'as a small boy I sat on the knees of Revolutionary soldiers who had lost arms fighting...
...whole was less concerned with the immediate future of civil liberties than with the immediate future of the U. S. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "The whole shape of the world . . . has been destroyed before our eyes, and it has proved all but impossible to readjust our whole system of ideas and attitudes to the new reality which now confronts us . . . . There is an American case, worth arguing for, worth fighting for and worth dying for." Just dawning on the Western Hemisphere was the suspicion that Nazi Germany, like Communist Russia, was engaged in a world revolution...
...first nine months that Prime Minister "Dev" had lately been thinking of holding a general election to cash in on its success. Last month's rape of three little neutrals not so far away upset all that. Appalled Irishmen promptly forgot political enmities energetically cultivated since the civil war. Even William Cosgrave, who rose from saloonkeeper's tyke to President (1922-32), now Opposition Leader of the Dail, rose on his feet last week and plumped for his bitter...
Favorite target of General Franco's Rebel gunners in the Spanish civil war was Telefonica, International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.'s 17-story skyscraper, tallest building in Madrid. Bruised but unbowed by some 186 shells which struck it during the two-and-a-half-year siege, the big steel and reinforced concrete structure served as a home for I. T. & T.'s skeleton staff and their families, occasionally as a bomb shelter for harassed Loyalists. Even heavy bombardments failed to faze its automatic dial system...