Word: civile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Egotistic, democratic Ramón and plodding, militaristic Francisco were too often at opposite political poles to be good friends, but when the civil war started Lieut. Colonel Franco, then Spanish air attaché at Washington, immediately returned to Spain to join his brother. The Generalissimo made him chief of the Rightist Majorcan air base. The job was close to a nominal one, however, for all knew that Majorca was directed, if not owned, by the Italians...
...Luring on Japan." It came out last week that the high Chinese civil and military leaders who remained in Hankow until last fortnight departed in six airplanes. In the first plane were Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, Mrs. Chiang, and their Australian adviser, William Henry Donald...
...these deeds were as nothing to his turning of the face of Turkey from East to West. The abolition of the veil, fez, the institution of polygamy meant the abandonment of the nation's Moslem past. The substitution of civil, criminal and commercial codes of law copied from Western models for the old sheria laws led to the abolition of special privileges for foreigners. The writing of a new language with a new alphabet made literacy a privilege of the masses rather than of priests and intellectuals. Turkey in 1938 is a westernized nation...
...challenge: Let Tribuneman Chesly Manly prove the truth of a certain statement in one of his recent dispatches from Washington, and the Capital Times would immediately pay $1,000 to any charity the Tribune might name. The statement in question: "La Follette's so-called [Civil Liberties Committee] inquiry was conceived by John L. Lewis, dictator of the C. I. O. and political ally of Mr. Roosevelt, and used to intimidate, harass and smear employers opposed by the C. I. O." Chicago is 144 miles from Madison. At week's end the Tribune and its publisher. Robert...
While Hitler and Mussolini trumpet their sympathy for the native, native dissatisfaction with British rule steams and bubbles from India through Palestine to Africa. In East Africa more sanitation, medicine, education and agricultural improvements might reconcile villagers to their colonial status. Such a program requires trained experts. Since Negro civil servants are cheaper than white, in fact cost only one-fifth as much to hire and maintain, the $1,000,000 Makerere College is expected to be a good investment for England...