Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...once taught Chinese troops to goose-step, took over the military Government of the Low Countries for Adolf Hitler. At the same time Berlin let it be known that Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart of Austria and points east, Germany's handy man for disciplining captured countries, would become civil administrator of The Netherlands when the time is ripe...
...armaments' sake, domestic economy was started toward complete rationalization. Baruch later said that if the war had lasted another year "our whole civil population would have gradually emerged in cheap but serviceable uniforms. Types of shoes were to be reduced to two or three. The manufacture of pleasure automobiles was to cease." As it was, the Board cut the number of steel plow models for sale in the U.S. from 312 to 76, tire sizes from 287 to 9, styles and colors of bathing caps to one per manufacturer, kinds of wooden coffins...
...than to arm as we are doing. In effect, we are at war with Germany already, practically committed to fight her openly in case of an Allied defeat. Already Walter Lippmann is calling for sacrifices for "defense" that are no different from those demanded by war itself. Already civil liberties are being drastically curtailed, especially by new laws directed against aliens. Phenomenal sums are being demanded by the President for armament. We are only a short distance away from an actual state...
...North Pole on April 21, 1908. Convicted in 1923 of using the mails to defraud, he was paroled in 1930. On his sick bed he was informed last week (by his Explorer Friend Ralph Shainwald von Ahlefeldt) that President Roosevelt had granted him a full pardon, restored his civil rights. Gasped Dr. Cook: "Thanks -happy," sank back into a coma...
...wave of socialist, reformist thinking that swept the western U.S. farm country and the Knights of Labor after the Civil War, two notable fantasies of the future were written. Caesar's Column, by that stanch Populist orator and Baconian, Ignatius Donnelly, depicted the late 20th Century as an extravaganza of what is now called Fascism, only in ancient stage Roman costume. Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy, gave readers in 1888 a more plausible picture of a future State Socialism which in technological details at least radio, television, movies was remarkably prophetic...