Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...recent years heard more about civil liberties than about the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee. Senators Robert Marion La Follette (Wisconsin) and Elbert Duncan Thomas (Utah) spent $200,000 and four years studying the seamy side of U. S. industry. They uncovered a grubby array of labor spies, gunmen, strikebreakers, provocateurs of labor strife, propagandists, munitionists-and industrialists who bought these seamy services...
...Attorney General Robert Jackson created a "national defense investigation unit" within the Federal Bureau of Investigation, put stern, jut-jawed Veteran Agent Hugh H. Clegg in charge. Jackson also recommended legislation to require the registration of all firearms. > The Civil Service Commission announced it would no longer certify for employment proven members of "the Communist Party, the German Bund, or any other Communist or Nazi organization...
Many a liberal U. S. citizen dreaded the shape of things to come. The American Civil Liberties Union promised a court battle to test the Civil Service Commission ruling. The Workers Defense League met, warned one another that "we must do everything in our power to see that the rights and liberties enjoyed by our democracy are protected." George Norris rose in the Senate to recall World War I raids, when "hundreds of persons entirely innocent were arrested, shackled and handcuffed just because their enemies made false charges against them." Many could recall when anti-German feeling ran so high...
While Kansas towns burn and North and South begin Civil War, Will Cantrill turns from school teaching to guerilla warfare to get to the top of the world in the quickest time possible. With a woman at the bottom of his ambitions and marshal Bob Seton always waiting to take her away, the plot preserves all the aspects of a rip-roaring melodrama and yet succeeds where hundreds have failed. "Dark Triumph," boasting a lot of new talent and some oldtimers like Walter Pidgeon and Clare Trevor is one of the better pictures to his a Boston screen this year...
Highlights of the conference were talks by Nathan Strauss, administrator of the United States Housing Authority; Helen Hall, director of the Henry Street Settlement House in New York City; Commissioner Arthur S. Fleming of the United States Civil Service; John N. Edy, executive assistant of the Federal Works Agency; Dr. Morris R. Mitchell of Alabama State Teachers College; Albert Mayer, New York architect; and Maurice J. Tobin, mayor of Boston...