Word: civil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Producer Jed Harris two weeks' pay for the rest of the cast of Coquette when Mother MacArthur's confinement closed the show. Unsuccessful defense by Mr. Harris: that Mary's birth was "an act of God." † Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt last fortnight "adopted" a Spanish Civil War orphan, Lorenzo Murias, 12, through an organization called the Foster Parents Plan for Children in Spain, by which refugee children are kept in France at a cost to U. S. foster parents of $9 per month...
Edward John Noble has managed to run his new Civil Aeronautics Authority without calling press conferences. Washington newsmen, therefore, were startled and puzzled when shy Chairman Noble last week had them in for a chat about airline safety...
...invoked against him. He went ahead anyhow, at week's end had been formally arrested 16 times, once at each afternoon and evening showing. Challenging the constitutionality of the ordinance in a police-court show-down this week, Manager Allen will have on his side 1) the American Civil Liberties Union, 2) the Ku Klux Klan...
...member of the Yale class of '09 Moses did graduate work for a year and received a Ph.D. at Columbia before going into public service. He began his career as a municipal investigator in 1913, working his way up through the civil service until he was appointed Park Commissioner by Mayor LaGuardia three years...
...lecture, which will deal exclusively with the technical and engineering aspects of the Fair, is being sponsored jointly by the Harvard Engineering Society, the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, and the American Society of Civil Engineers...