Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...session, pushed through laws forbidding the export of banknotes, checks, drafts, coins, bullion. No one could doubt any longer that Sweden, by helping volunteers to get to Finland, was "actively non-intervening" in the Finnish War more or less as Germany, Italy and Russia "non-intervened" in the Spanish Civil...
...Unions are the main liberal force in America today," Harry Bridges, well known labor leader, said last night, as he called upon the American youth movement to join the unions in their struggle to preserve civil liberties and organize labor...
...Western Blizzard" panic of that year and for two years more, young, brusque, tough-fibered Morgan listened & learned as a Wall Street junior clerk. By 1860 he was in business as New York agent for his father's George Peabody & Co., bought and sold foreign exchange through the Civil War. Also, he helped finance the sale to the Union Army of 5,000 carbines which later gave rise to a law suit...
Through the red flare of the Tragic Era, while Andrew Johnson was being laid on the cross and Philadelphian Jay Cooke, financier of the Civil War, was riding to ruin in the panic of 1873, J. P. Morgan walked cool and incisive, supremely confident of the future of America. At 32 he whipped Dan Drew, Jim Fisk and Jay Gould in their attempt to loot the Albany & Susquehanna R. R., saw its stock climb from $18 to $118 when he lifted the road out of receivership. It was his first real fight. Before gaudy Jim Fisk had left the Wall...
...Follette probe of restrictions on civil liberties...