Word: civile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Baxter's subject will deal with Anglo-American relations since the Civil War. The remaining lectures also on this subject will be given later in the month...
...House, and by claiming that the labor legislation he opposed previously was either unsound or beneficial to some favored bloc. These facts serve to make neither progressive, for as Governor, Boss Curley was busy improving the spoils system--awarding jobs to his followers, paying huge salaries, wrecking the civil service--and sucking money out of Boston for himself and his friends by subtle political machinations. And as Speaker, Mr. Saltonstall was prevented by custom from voting on any legislative measure...
...them with Frank Hague, perpetual mayor of Jersey City and boss of populous Hudson County. So sharp is the contrast between ironfisted, authoritarian Boss Hague and the libertarian New Deal that last summer Franklin Roosevelt felt obliged to reprimand the Boss publicly, if anonymously, for his suppression of civil liberties in Jersey City (TIME, July 4). The Department of Justice even went to the extent of sending G-Men to investigate Socialist Norman Thomas' complaint about being bums-rushed out of Jersey City. (Although the State Supreme Court found against Mr. Thomas on another complaint last week, he still...
...ships worth $30,000,000. Since merchants would not ship in Northern vessels for fear of raiders, almost the entire fleet, totaling 6,000,000 tons, was sold to English interests for the bargain price of $42,000,000, leaving the U. S. at the end of the Civil War with only 1,000,000 tons, largely obsolete...
Author Kantor's story is teasing and ingenious rather than effective. As in his Civil War novels (Long Remember, Arouse and Beware, etc.), MacKinlay Kantor has a graphic sense of the U. S. past, writes good descriptive narrative, and creates an atmosphere of tension. But in The Noise of Their Wings he goes lame shuttling between the past and present, and most of his vitality appears to have been exhausted in devising a modern plot. The characters in The Noise of Their Wings resemble real people about as closely as the Smithsonian's well-stuffed passenger pigeon resembles...