Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Dail Eireann in Dublin passed by one vote a bill to create an arbitration board for civil service grievances. Two days later, Prime Minister de Valera surprised friend & foe alike by deciding that the vote showed lack of confidence. He dissolved the Dail Eireann, called for general elections on June...
...grim-faced prisoners in the Rightists' San Cristóbal fortress at Pamplona, 30 miles from the French border, suddenly attacked a few of their guards, connived with the others, and last week succeeded in executing a mass jailbreak. In a few days, posses of Rightist Civil Guards rounded up 600 fugitives, killed scores more in clashes in the dense thickets of the Navarre border territory. A few prisoners managed to escape to France and there revealed that many of those who took part in the escape were not Leftist prisoners of war but Rightists, members of the Falange...
From the Leftist side in Spain, New York Times Correspondent Lawrence A. Fernsworth, temporarily in Marseille, reported last week that agents of the Leftist military police, dissatisfied with the slowness of civil judicial authorities in dispatching alleged members of Barcelona's "Fifth Column" (Franco supporters within the city), recently "started to take the law into their own hands by seizing prisoners at night and executing them in isolated spots. They had executed between 20 and 30 persons before their activities were ended...
...many years the question of whether traffic court proceedings should be broadcast has been hotly debated. Last week, speaking against the practice before the Chicago Civil Liberties Committee, Municipal Judge Edward B. Casey presented some pertinent figures: In one court, of those tried when proceedings were not broadcast, 31.6% were convicted. Of those tried during broadcasts, 87.5% were convicted. Average fine when there was no broadcast was $10.63, but when the judge had the world listening in, average fines were...
Like a business merger, a church merger requires the tactful employment of special techniques. Last week in Philadelphia, at its 150th annual General Assembly, the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A heartened hopers for church unity by its mastery of both tact and tactics. Ever since the Civil War this church has remained separated from the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. (South). Last week, winding up their General Assembly in Meridian. Miss., Southern Presbyterians approved the work of their committee which is negotiating a reunion with the Northern church. And in Philadelphia. for the first time in nearly...