Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...York City last week took steps to replenish its staff of street cleaners. The city estimated it would need about 1,600 in the next four years. So its Civil Service Commission arranged an examination, invited able-bodied men of 20 to 40 to take tests for the position of "Sanitation Man, Class A" (laborer). Salary: $35 a week. The response was terrific...
From early morning until late afternoon, a horde of men trooped into 23 schoolhouses to struggle with the Commission's first test (mental). Long lines of candidates shivered in the March wind. By nightfall, 75,000 men, second largest number in U. S. Civil Service history (100,000 took a U. S. customs inspector's examination a year and a half ago) had been examined...
...heat thus turned on him, last week St. Gandhi turned it on the British. His Working Committee of Congress threatened nationwide civil disobedience if Britain did not grant home rule instanter...
...Wrote the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born: "We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all citizens whatever their background...
Similar campaigns will begin simultaneously at universities all over the country, with the aim of collecting a total sum of $10,000. Most of the fund will be held in reserve to combat measures suppressing civil liberties on the campus and tending to weaken the Student Union. The drive will last until...