Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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CAIRO--Hussein Sirry Pasha, former Minister of Commerce and Public Works and a well-known civil engineer, formed a new government tonight with himself as Prime Minister. Sirry, nonpartisan, will continue Eygpt's policy of loyal help to Britain...
...worthy of their jobs, they can command far larger salaries in private life than the Government's $15,000 a year. No President can order a man of such a type to do anything: he must convince and persuade him. And so on down the line, with lesser civil servants, with the Senate, the House, the States. And always, behind everything, the press and finally, the people. All must be persuaded...
...when George Washington was preparing to retire, he gave as one of his reasons "a disinclination to be longer buffeted in the public prints by a set of infamous scribblers." Even Thomas Jefferson, loftiest defender of civil liberties, said, "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper." But the press of 1807 was not the press of 1940. U. S. newspapers in Jefferson's day were mostly organs of partisan vituperation and vilification owned or subsidized by political leaders. The partisanship of the press in the campaign of 1940 was mostly of another order...
...then put it on record that "We . . . having undertaken for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith ... a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia do ... solemnly and mutually in the presence of God . . . covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic," thus giving the first expression in U. S. history to the idea that men can establish a government for themselves by mutual consent of the governed...
Died. Manuel Azafia, 60, president of the Spanish Republic during the Civil War; of lung congestion, with heart complications; at Montauban, France...