Word: civil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Legend had little to say about his tenderness to his narrow circle of friends, his unfailing generosity, his clear legal perception, his unerring eye and ear for the false, the unessential. Least-recognized was his long-time alertness for the preservation of civil liberties...
Fortnight ago his one remaining mainstay, solid old Pierce Butler, died (TIME, Nov. 27). In silence last week he heard Justice Owen Roberts read the majority decision reaffirming the civil liberties of the U. S. citizen, proclaim the right to pamphleteer without a police license.* The decision presented no new point of Constitutional doctrine, but to many a thoughtful U. S. citizen came as a solemn reminder, in anxious days, that beneath the stated rights of citizenship lies a rock-founded base guaranteeing their preservation...
Moslem-Hindu religious and social differences top the list of hindrances to Indian independence from British rule. Probably the most frequent and most telling answer Great Britain gives to demands for immediate dominion status is: "Once freed, India would destroy itself in civil war." The rift divides India as permanently as the Mississippi divides...
...successfully developed the handy wartime trick of storing blood in wine molds and milk bottles, using it for emergency transfusions as much as three weeks later; of septicemia contracted while operating; in Wutai-shan, China. Dr. Bethune joined the His-pano-Canadian Blood Transfusion Service during the Spanish Civil War, by his delayed transfusions saved the lives of thousands of wounded Loyalist fighters. His job in China's war, paid for by the Canadian and American Leagues for Peace and Democracy, was surgeon on the medical staff of the Communist Eighth Route Army...
...hope of the Committee to make inquiries into the violations of civil liberties during the present and the last wars and to publish these in a pamphlet. In this connection Fleishman stated that undoubtedly the Browder question and the Dies Committee would come under consideration...