Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baldwin, a famed liberal, is head of the Civil Liberties Union, an organization made up of a staff of lawyers who volunteer their services to help protect civil liberties. At present the organization is active in Jersey City...
Roger N. Baldwin '05, Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, and Clarence B. Randall '12, Vice-President, and Director of the Inland Steel Company have been selected to give lectures under the Godkin Foundation on April 25, 26, 28, and 29 on "Civil Liberties and Industrial Conflict...
Jersey City's Mayor Hague has recently put up a barrier against the C.I.O. organization as far as his city is concerned, and the Civil Liberties Union has been fighting the mayor on the ground that the labor group has a right to function in Jersey City...
Much that is irrational and unsound has been used in the fight against the Byrnes bill. The cry of "dictator" is ridiculous; as a matter of fact, the proposed extension of the Civil Service will lessen the President's power by taking the weapon of patronage from him. The division of the pre-audit and the post-audit functions which caused so much opposition will place the control of expenditure in the hands of Congress where it rightfully belongs--and where it theoretically resides today. To call the bill "a dagger in the heart of democracy" ignores the fact that...
Stressing the merit of the Bill's provision for six presidential assistants, Professor Elliott said, "If I were looking for faults, I would criticize the abolishment of the Civil Service Commission; I think it should be retained as an examining body. In the second place, the Byrnes Bill makes no proper provision for the independent commissions...