Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Words struck harshly last night. The audience winced at Hemingway's terse sentences full of meaning. For two hours they sat through unreal seenes torn from the Spanish, Civil War, through rape, death, and gory descriptions. There were ideals and ideas involved and both came off second best. The final curtain left many persons unimpressed or at best uncertain...
After Reconstruction the Supreme Court waxed in authority and popularity with the ruling classes. With a long series of proBusiness, pro-Individualist decisions it paved the way for the westward expansion of the nation. Yet the best-loved Justice since the Civil War was no railroad lawyer, but brilliant, handle-bar-mustachioed Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Great Dissenter...
Approachable, colloquial and jolly, Dr. Condon is that delight of newsmen- a scientist who used to be a newsman himself. Born in New Mexico 37 years ago, son of a railroad civil engineer, he spent his childhood roving all over the West with his father. After a year at the University of California, he dropped out and went to work for an Oakland paper. But he soon decided that journalism was not his line, returned to the university and graduated with highest honors. He likes reading science books of all kinds, band music, complicated ice-cream sodas. His thick black...
...that time the League went on record as being opposed to the defeatist attitude that "America will get in this war sooner or later anyway." In addition it voted against all profiteering, extension of credits to belligerents, and dangerous propaganda and to concentrate the League's efforts on safeguarding civil liberties and strengthening democracy in America...
...government, will give us a chance to present our proposals to the nation's leaders. Delegates will visit their congressmen and senators, demonstrate in a parade to the White House, express their views on current legislation and current problems in general discussions on problems of jobs, peace and civil liberties. They will make their demands upon their representatives in Washington. At the same time they will hear such prominent figures as the President and Mrs. Roosevelt, Attorney-General Jackson, James Carey of the C.I.O., and various congressmen express their views on these questions...