Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...last week was a 1,000-page Dies Committee report on Communism in the U. S. It outlined the program of the Communist Party, named names, charged the Reds with plotting to disrupt defense industries, destroy the morale of the armed forces of the U. S., discourage enlistments, foment civil war. Popping with ideas, Dies, in Texas, had telegraphed the President for a conference...
...such points, the interrelations of army administration, civil administration and private administration are of the highest consequence to the welfare of our citizens. Without sound management, the structure of society will bog down and flounder, but skilled personnel and practices will aid immeasurably in reconstruction and readjustment. Otherwise, peace may bring calamities as hard to bear as those of a war, or a war-tension period...
Wherever Christianity has spread since the days of Jesus, it has raised the status of woman in civil life, it has kept her in her ecclesiastical place. Even professional women are rarely allowed to do more than sew, serve suppers and teach Sunday school. Wrote one Disciple: "The world has claimed the brains of our brilliant women. The church was too slow...
Last week a stack of British medical journals, long delayed, reached the U. S. Largely devoted to such grim warlike topics as blood transfusions, epidemics, war neuroses and head injuries, the journals still had space for tidbits of civil medicine. Sample tidbits...
...Roosevelt has done what he could to destroy the industries of the country, and they all stand now in a half-wrecked condition and waiting in an ague to see what he will do next. . . . Mr. Roosevelt is the most formidable disaster that has befallen the country since the Civil War-but the vast mass of the nation loves...