Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Student pilots from 382 out of the 435 colleges taking part in the Civil Aeronautics Authority's civilian pilot training program have already indicated their intention to participate in the national competition for the $15,000 Shell Aviation Scholarships and awards, it was announced today by Major Leater D. Gardner, executive vice-president of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences...
...corruption. Northern Ireland has a balanced budget and a neat profit of ?1,227,000 while Southern Ireland has a deficit of ?2,573,000. As for the "Divide and Rule" idea it seems that no one remembers that division came first and the ruling afterwards. Would TIME prefer civil war? We once fought to make the South remain a part of the U.S.A. What independence did we grant to those dissenters? Is Ireland from its position not more vital to England? England buys 80% of Ireland's exports and furnishes 60% of her imports. It looks...
...committee, continued to forget Economy, gobble 1940 pork. Items: $25,000,000 for some 50 flood-control projects (upping the War Department's total for civil functions $70,000.000 above those voted by the House); a $231,000,950 authorization for future flood-control projects (the House had voted only...
Notwithstanding, the court imposed sentence of five years in jail, fines up to 5,000 francs ($101.50), and loss of civil rights for five years upon Red Bonte and 35 other Communist ex-Deputies. Eight were let off with suspended jail sentences of four years, but sent to concentration camps for Communists & Nazis near Paris (soon to be moved to North Africa). Nine Communist ex-Deputies tried in absentia (Paris believes several of these are hiding in the Soviet Embassy) received five-year jail sentences and fines of 5,000 francs, but further charges of "treason against the external safety...
University of Chicago President Robert Maynard Hutchins refused Communist Earl Browder (out on bail pending appeal of his conviction for passport fraud) permission to speak on the University of Chicago campus. Said Hutchins to protesting students: "If the university banned a redheaded man it would be an infringement of civil liberties. If it banned a murderer it would not. This case lies somewhere in between...