Word: civile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Civil Service Commission last week warned its 533,325 classified Federal employes to abstain from political campaigns...
...borough commission a new idea for restricting picketing. He proposed an ordinance imposing a $50 weekly license fee on anyone who wants to carry a sign on Ridgewood's streets. Penalties: $200 fine or 90 days in jail or both. His argument: while a man's civil liberties give him the right to walk the streets and express himself, the privilege of carrying signs is taxable...
...transport's crew and passengers went overboard into the river and the Japanese planes fired on them in the water, continuing the work of extermination. Pilot Woods was carried away by a swift current and reached shore in safety. Radio Operator Joe Loh and a passenger, Chinese Civil Servant C. N. Lou, with a bullet in his neck, also escaped. Two days later, while the British gunboat Cicala stood by, Chinese extricated three bullet-riddled bodies from the transport, sunk in 40 feet of water. Among the missing were President Hsu Sing-loh of the National Commercial Savings Bank...
...stands for everything the Times opposes. "Attorney T. B. Cosgrove for the Times," began Friend Wirin, "said yesterday that he considers it the finest daily journal printed in the English language. I consider it the worst." From this Voltairian beginning, Lawyer Wirin, appearing in behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, went on to a long and earnest defense of the Times's right to print whatever it likes unless there is "clear and imminent" danger to the Government or the courts. A brief in support of the Times was also filed by the Los Angeles Chapter...
...hundred years ago, India had a school in every village. Then Great Britain took charge of India's educational system, began to teach Indians in English, to concentrate on training clerks and professionals for its commercial and civil service. Now, 50,000 Indians go to college each year, and one-fifth come out with B.A. degrees or as "failed B.A.'s."-* In India nowadays professions and Government service are overcrowded, and the village schools are vanishing. With only half as much money spent on primary education as on higher education, barely 7% of the population is in school...