Word: civile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emergency Board, composed of the Governor and the finance committee chairmen of the two legislative houses. In the closing days of Mr. La Follette's term, the State Supreme Court padlocked, in the State treasury, some $4,000,000 which this board was about to dole out to Civil War veterans and the teachers' retirement fund. This would have left the State treasury virtually bare when the new Governor took office...
Last week Your Wings, still a best selling book on aviation, seemed headed for another zoom. With the Civil Aeronautics Authority starting a drive to train 20,000 pilots annually in U. S. colleges and universities, Assen Jordanoff's dialogues were easily the most readable preliminary instructions available...
...members of the Commitee signed the report immediately except Sen. Pat. McCarran, D., Nev., who asked Frankfurter pointedly whether he subscribes to the doctrines of Marxism and questioned him about his membership in the American Civil Liberties Union...
Frankfurter appeared personally after two days of hearings in which witnesses assailed his political and social ideologies, cast doubt on his citizenship, questioned his membership in the Civil Liberties Union and his activities in the Tom Mooney band Sacco-Vanzetti cases, and raised the racial issue...
Sullivan based his objections upon-Frankfurter's "alien affiliations" and upon his association with the Civil Liberties Union. Sullivan cited a letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frankfurter which compared the latter's ideas with Trotsky's. When asked for Frankfurter's reply Sullivan said he didn't have...