Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. "The means," she insisted, "must be full of truth and love and wisdom." This summer, sickened by the rise of the black-power movement, she angrily disavowed both organizations, charging that S.N.C.C. had been perverted by "a mixed-up mess of 19th century anarchism and 1930s Communism...
Died. Paul Reynaud, 87, Premier of France during the 1940 debacle; of complications following abdominal surgery; in Neuilly, France. Sometimes brilliant, always outspoken, Reynaud was one of history's political unfortunates. Through the 1930s, he and other moderate conservatives warned in vain about the growing Nazi threat; when he finally came to power in the spring of 1940, it was too late for anything except to preside over the fall of France -which is how Frenchmen remember him, though they might also note that he started Charles de Gaulle on his way with an appointment in 1940 as Under...
...first used the Red Guard label in 1927 to designate the peasant irregulars who fought alongside his troops in such battles as the victorious assault on the walled city of Tingchow. Later, Red Guards accompanied Mao and his men on the Long March in the mid-1930s to the safety of the caves of Yenan...
...modest way, the allegorical novels of Rex Warner have enjoyed a steady vogue in England since he began writing them there in the 1930s. This reissue of The Aerodrome, first published in England in 1941 and in America in 1947, will give readers in the U.S., where Warner has had no vogue, a chance to judge the publisher's claim that it is a "minor classic." It may not be a classic, but neither is it minor...
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the use of contraceptives spread, although their illegal status gave birth to such nervously silly euphemisms as "uppity-cuppity" (for diaphragm) and it was considered boldly wicked to admit using them. All the while, Margaret Sanger fought futilely for a federal "Doctors' Bill" that would open the mails to birth control information and devices. Victory came by a more roundabout route. She had ordered a new Japanese pessary sent to an associate, Dr. Hannah Stone, and it was seized by U.S. Customs. In U.S. v. One Package, U.S. District Court Judge Grover Moscowitz dismissed...