Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...must create opportunities for peaceful pursuits. It is essential that youth make itself heard in demanding greater educational facilities, better opportunities for jobs, and increased social legislation. To guard against war hysteria swamping our country's resolve to remain at peace, we must raise our voices in defense of civil liberties, of the Bill of Rights, wherever and however they may be infringed; we must particularly emphasize that the bargaining rights of labor be not curtailed as is proposed, for instance, by the suggested M-day plan; we must insist on freedom of speech for all religious groups...
...work in Finland accomplished, irrepressible General Mannerheim wanted to march his army into East Karelia and move on Petrograd in conjunction with the British Murmansk expedition. But the White Government, grateful to Ger many for her help in the civil war and thinking she was winning the World War, vetoed any cooperation with England. Mannerheim resigned in a huff and the newly elected Regent, Per Svinhufvud, asked the Kaiser to name one of his sons King of Finland. The Kaiser proposed his brother-in-law, Prince Friedrich Karl of Hesse, who was promptly elected by the Finnish Diet. Next thing...
From Cleveland Dr. Ward returned to Manhattan, made ready for a trip to Mexico and, possibly, a sabbatical year away from Union Seminary. Honest and greatly loved though he is, Methodist Ward had become an embarrassment to at least one organization, the American Civil Liberties Union, of which he has been president for 20 years. A faction in the Union, which believes it should go on record against the violation of civil liberties in Russia, has been gunning for Dr. Ward. Another group this aging clergyman heads, the American League for Peace and Democracy, began to crack up after...
Birthdays. Brigadier General William Henry Bisbee, U. S. A., retired, 100, veteran of the Civil War, Sioux Indian campaigns, keen student of World War II, who received from the War Department the Order of the Purple Heart and from President Roosevelt a letter of felicitation; William Libbey Sexton, oldest living alumnus of Princeton University, 95; Wilhelm von Hohenzollern, onetime Kaiser of Germany. 81; James Clark McReynolds, senior Supreme Court Justice, 78; Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President...
Current "war literature" from England and Germany, including official press releases, air-raid instructions for civilians, pamphlets for neutral consumption, and calls for volunteers in civil defense, has been placed on exhibit in Widener Library...