Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Wilfred Laurier began to watch William Lyon Mackenzie King as early as 1900, when he learned that the young man had entered the civil service (as Deputy Minister of Labor) in preparation for a public career. Up to that time Mackenzie King had been headed for social service. After graduating from the University of Toronto and Harvard he had studied social conditions in Europe, done social work under Jane Addams at Chicago's Hull House. But his grandfather had led an abortive rebellion against the British in upper Canada, and Sir Wilfred thought the grandson had the stuff...
...fortnight Spain and its tubby little Caudillo had been working up to a celebration of the first anniversary of peace. On April 1, 1939, Generalissimo Franco issued his last communique, announcing the end of 32 months of civil war. This year, for the first time since the days of Alfonso XIII, Seville celebrated Holy Week with traditional splendor, and to Seville last fortnight went General Franco to give his blessing to Spain's return to Catholicism.* Back in Madrid, he was acclaimed by thousands of Madrileños in a Falange-sponsored demonstration. He held a reception...
Editor Freeman made the Civil War in Spain clear to Richmond readers by comparing Talavera de la Reina to Burkeville Junction, Va. When German troops concentrated at Aachen, soon after World War II began, Dr. Freeman wrote in the News Leader...
...trial opened with a lively debate between opposing counsel over whether privacy was a 1) civil, 2) political or 3) property right. Judge Roy V. Rhodes quickly put a stop to this argument, got down to bare facts. Miss Lawrence, wearing a tight-fitting red sweater and black & white checked skirt, was called to the stand. Good & loud, she told her story...
...ponies and sells them to his neighbors. They break loose in horrendous slapstick and pervade the countryside. Mink gets a life sentence; Cousin Flem doesn't lift a finger to help him. Two bourgeois and a desperate peasant invest all they have in a plot of land where Civil War treasure is known to be buried. They find Flem has hoodwinked them as he has everyone else. When last seen, Flem is on his way to larger operations in Jefferson...