Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...cobalt-blue ceiling and fantastic chandeliers of the Department of Labor Auditorium, the bustle and fidget of over 2,000 young people settled to a whisper. The members of the American Youth Congress, assembled in Washington for a four-day citizenship institute, "a monster lobby for jobs, peace, civil liberties, education and health," came to order. A. Y. C.'s adopted mother, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, sat placidly in the second...
...students, sharecroppers, a few "youths" with bald or greying heads) were dog-tired. All day they had seen sights, visited Congressmen, argued, walked up & down with rhyming placards: "Heed the Voice of 21,000,000: Keep the C. C. C. Civilian!" "Scholarships not Battleships!" "Dies is FLIP-PITY about Civil LIBERTY...
...following is quoted from an AP dispatch of several days ago: "Shaw's marriage to Lana Turner last night had all Hollywood baffled . . . They reportedly had not addressed a civil word to each other throughout the filming of their recent picture . . . Lana Turner, who has been engaged for three years to a Hollywood script writer, notified her "flance" of her marriage to Shaw by telephone . . . after the ceremony. She said, 'While on our way to a party we started discussing marriage, and decided we wanted to get married...
...recent Youth Institute in Washington was attended by over 5000 young people representing many youth organizations of every sort. It discussed and lobbied for jobs, peace, and civil liberties. Jobs, because youth needs an economic status in the community; peace, because young people want no involvements in war; and civil liberties, because only through free discussion can the first two objectives be obtained. It is this representative organization that the Crimson and the Dies Committee call "a minority speaking for a group which it claims to represent...
...University's best known jack-of-all-intellects. Professor Pound found time to conduct a botanical survey of his native state of Nebraska, and to acquire quite a reputation for his knowledge of Civil War military history, while he was becoming a ranking expert in jurisprudence and serving as dean of the Law School...