Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dispensing offices-controller, treasurer, coroner, register of wills -for all of which the Democrats were conceded a better-than-even chance. Mayor Wilson had most fun with two rich but politically unsophisticated socialites who undertook to revive Philadelphia's Republican organization-City Chairman Jay Cooke, descendant of the Civil War financier, and Vice President Joseph Newton Pew Jr.. of Sun Oil Co., who financed Wilson's last mayoralty campaign. Cried the irrepressible mayor: "I'm going to take all the oil out of Pew. There isn't anything to take out of Cooke. . . . Why, every...
...civil war in Spain is "the nerve centre of international politics" according to British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden last week, and on this theory it was arranged to window dress the opening of Parliament in London (see p. 25) with a British diplomatic victory scored in the London International Committee on Non-intervention in Spain...
Almost since the first scheduled airliner roared off U. S. runways and especially since traffic lanes were established in the sky, civilian pilots have contested the right of transport companies and airports to restrict their flying. This week, however, a set of re-codified and revised Civil Air Regulations, signed by Secretary of Commerce Roper, takes effect...
...Pure Food & Drug Bill up before Congress last session would have made Dr. Massengill liable to Federal prosecution. But the bill failed and there is no law which makes a pharmacist responsible to the Federal Government for selling untested drugs. However, Dr. Massengill is liable to civil damage suits from relatives of the 41 dead...
...tight and tolerably comfortable cocoon. Irritating to some ears will be Author Tate's attempts, in many of his poems, to catch the tone of T. S. Eliot's latter-day concord of sourness and light. But in the presentation of his central themes, the Civil War and life's mortal idiocy, Poet Tate, verging in his later poems on the first-rate, speaks in his own tones...