Word: civilizer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Tinto had some high cards left. Two of them were the Army and the carabineros (civil guards), without whose support no Chilean revolt could get out of the shouting stage. During the 1938 campaign, which won Aguirre the Presidency, a fascist revolt was viciously suppressed by the carabineros, protecting the outgoing Rightist Government. Last year the mere threat of their guns kept another plot from turning into a revolt against the Popular Front. As long as Don Tinto could keep them in his camp he had little to fear; if he loses them, America's first may become...
Proposed as projects were study groups on Peace Aims, National Defense, Civil Liberties, and Labor Cooperation...
...industries it surveys monthly are now forced to pay overtime wages because they haven't enough workers to go around 40 hours a week. (Latest industries to start operating over 40 hours a week: electrical manufacturing, lumber & millwork, paper & pulp.) Last week too the U. S. Civil Service Commission was scouting for 600 skilled workers for the Frankford (Philadelphia) arsenal. In Ohio, 4,500 production workers will be needed for a new shell-loading plant near Cleveland; at Cincinnati, Wright Aeronautical's new engine plant will shortly be looking for anywhere from 6,000 to 12,000 skilled...
Oliver Wiswell is also contemporary. The tragic dilemma of Oliver Wiswell and the tories is a central tragedy of our time. They learn what modern exiles have to learn: 1) that decency, thrift, sobriety, intelligence have no value in a civil war; 2) that there is no hope for the vanquished in a social revolution except to start life over again in a new country. Says Author Roberts through the mouth of troubled Oliver Wiswell: "God grant to all peoples a Wilderness Trail at whose end they can find surcease from demagogues, interference, greed, intolerance and politicians...
Also Dr. John P. Peters of the Yale Medical School, secretary of the Committee of Physicians for the Improvement of Medical Care; Professor Morris R. Cohen, former president of the American Philosophical Association; Dr. Harry F. Ward of Union Theological Seminary, former president of the American Civil Liberties Union; and Sterling A. Brown, outstanding Negro poet...