Word: civil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Liberal Union joined with more than 20 other groups to form a new body to coordinate all action on Civil Liberties in the Greater Boston area, Joseph Chira '49, HLU representative, announced last night...
Where It Hurt. There was no doubt that from now on the coalition would be an imposing force in the Senate. Last week, having won on filibuster and civil rights, it also kicked Harry Truman where it always hurts him most-in a matter involving his friendships. The President had nominated his poker-pal, Mon C. Wallgren, ex-governor of Washington, as head of the National Security Resources Board. An amiable mediocrity, Wallgren had no visible qualifications for the job of planning the military, industrial and civilian mobilization of the U.S. On the Senate Armed Services Committee, Virginia...
Durable Species. The coalition was not a development of the civil-rights fight. It was an old alliance which began developing during Franklin Roosevelt's second term. It fought a rearguard action against the New Deal. It would not be a hard & fast combination; there would be regroupings within it and shifts back to the Administration side...
...years ago. A graduate in law and philosophy of the University of Salamanca, he gave up his law practice in Madrid to devote full time to Catholic activities and was soon recognized as leader of the Catholic party in Spain. In 1935, just a few months before the Civil War began, Angel Herrera decided, at 48, to become a priest...
...laga, where feudal-minded landowners have long held the workers in hungry ignorance, has the lowest percentage (40%) of practicing Catholics in the country. In the uprisings of 1931, 36 Málaga churches were burned; during the Civil War the Málagans killed every priest. It was an ideal place for the new bishop to set up the kind of school he wanted, where priests could study social problems. Such old-line prelates as Seville's Cardinal Segura y Saenz (TIME, March 7) denounced the venture as "pernicious." But in January 1948, with 14 students, Bishop Herrera...