Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...your notice of my book J. Pierpont Morgan, an Intimate Portrait (Dec. 18) your reviewer takes exception to my clarification of the old Civil War Hall's carbine legend, and says...
...Workers of America. Behind him and his 2,400 jubilee delegates were men long dead: John Bates, who founded the first U. S. miners' union in 1849, and failed; the thousands of British diggers who flocked over to man U. S. coal mines during the industry's Civil War boom, and remained to foster unionism; the violent Irishmen who were called Molly Maguires; sainted John Siney, whose Miners' National Association of the U. S. rose, fell, and left him dying (of a broken heart, some said); the Knights of Labor, "one big union" for all workers; whiskered...
...ship construction was cut to $125,000,000. Poulticed away to nothing (on a point of order-that there was no basic law authorizing their continued existence) were two White House growths: National Resources Planning Board, Office of Government Reports. Cut were estimates for the Civil Aeronautics Authority, the Veterans' Administration, the Civil Service Com mission, building projects. Tennessee Valley Authority barely escaped a bandage that would have tourniqueted the life...
Last week the House of Commons got its first detailed report on the effects of these measures from Minister of Economic Warfare Ronald Hibbert Cross. Tall, fair-haired, direct, pleasant, incisive, 43, a merchant-banker and civil servant of the conservative Eton-Army-business pattern, Ronald Cross is considered one of the most promising of the Government's younger supporters. Politically brash, he nevertheless once thoughtfully sent flowers to an ill and defeated opponent. His present job is to see that the enemy gets no flowers until its funeral...
...realism and a feeling for mob movement unknown to Hollywood. Its story of Russian efforts to fraternize with the German Army in 1917 also conveys some unintentional advice to wise Finns from Bolshevik Leader Lenin. His recipe for breaking up an invading army: "Turn the imperialist war into a civil war." Like pipe-smoking Comrade Stalin, whom the picture glorifies, producers, scripters and most of the actors in this Russian film are Georgians...