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Word: civil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mississippi's judicial machinery, the U.S. fell back on the only remaining federal weapon, two seldom used sections (241 and 242) of Title 18, U.S. Code, indicated that it would ask a federal grand jury in Biloxi for indictments charging the mob with violation of Parker's civil rights and conspiracy to deny his legal rights. The Greenville Delta Democrat-Times called Mississippi-born Judge Dale's bluff better than the fulminating Northern papers: "Nothing could have occurred that would go further to establish the point that a federal anti-lynching law is necessary and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: On Behalf of Lynch Law | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Blind Loyalty. He hated war (he went from private to major in the Civil War), but took Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines in a war that was as close to comic opera as a shooting war could be. Some members of the Cabinet were so incompetent that only blind party loyalty could account for his devotion. His political mentor, Senator Mark Hanna of Ohio, was so obviously the errand boy of the trusts that not even the wildest admirer of McKinley could hope to explain away the President's regard for big business. Yet Author Leech shows McKinley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A President Remembered | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...Divinity School Student Association is sponsoring Uphaus' talk, which will begin at 4 p.m. in the Braun Room, at Andover Hall. Uphaus will discuss the topic "Reluctance to inform--a case for civil liberties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Uphaus to Speak On Man's Rights | 11/14/1959 | See Source »

...LAST CITIZEN. The Changing Image, Parts I and II. A discussion of the public image of the Negro from the earliest slave period to the end of the Civil War, including a comparison between fact and myth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WGBH Programs For The Week | 11/10/1959 | See Source »

...extremism and speaks eloquently for the reform bill we passed." If Still in uphill pursuit of Vice President Richard Nixon for the Republican presidential nomination, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller dropped by the White House for an hour-long chat with President Eisenhower. Officially, the two discussed civil defense but. Rocky admitted, they had got around to the subject of politics. Rockefeller grinningly refused to tell anything more, but word soon leaked out that he had received Ike's assurances of detached neutrality in the event of a Rockefeller-Nixon battle for the G.O.P. nomination. ¶ Adlai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Straws in the Wind | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

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