Word: civil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Foreign correspondents predicted the formation of three Italo-German commissions, military, political and economic, and foresaw that they would be dominated by Germans. Moreover, the two nations promised each other aid in case one was endangered by "national events." That provision could be taken as insurance against civil revolt in either country, but since little Italy could obviously not intervene to "Keep order" in the big German Reich, this provision will, if ever implemented, give the Reich the right under some circumstances to intervene in Italy. To those who have seen German troops, generals, diplomats and agents pouring into Italy...
Chosen for a beginning were 35 songs of the Civil War period (1861-65). Last week the two Civil War albums and a third containing songs of New York State were put on sale...
Caps and gowns (which became academic garb when they were prescribed for medieval scholars to cover their rags, are still worn daily at such places as Oxford and Fordham University) came into fashion at U. S. commencements soon after the Civil War, Mr. Sargent reported. Today an elaborate code, to which 95 schools and colleges adhere, governs the gowns' sizes, colors, materials. Black is for liberal arts graduates, white or grey for high school, blue for normal school, pink for music, lemon for library science, silver-grey for oratory, maize for agriculture. Harvard has its own code, uses varicolored...
...President Behn has had to leave Spain out of his income account. Last week, he laconically reported: "The extent of damage to the properties has not yet been ascertained, but reports received indicate that a high percentage of the 346,000 telephones in service at the beginning of the civil war still remain in service...
...fellow professors for opposing U. S. entry into the War (Beard himself supported the War), later joined John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, James Harvey Robinson in founding The New School for Social Research, for four years headed the New York Bureau of Municipal Research. A belligerent champion of civil liberties and academic freedom, Beard was a scorching critic of post-War red-hunting. When, in 1933, Missouri Pacific Railroad went bankrupt, Beard, a small bondholder, heard that the House of Morgan was withholding interest pending a court order. "Preposterous," Beard wrote, "you have my money. Send it to me." When they...