Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...times of so-called peace, ships are being attacked and sunk by submarines without cause or notice. Nations are fomenting and taking sides in civil warfare in. nations that have never done them any harm. Nations claiming freedom for themselves deny it to others...
Most shocking declaration in the pastoral, thought the letter writers, was that the Civil War is "an armed plebiscite." Replied their letter: "An 'armed plebiscite' is an obvious absurdity, sinister in the contempt it reflects for democratic procedure." Taking Catholic partisanship in the Spanish war as partisanship against democracy, the U. S. letter asked: "Is this to be the policy of the Catholic Church in other democratic countries, where antecedents of the present Spanish struggle were fought to a conclusion centuries ago, and Church and State permanently separated? . . . Certainly the contrast between the respected and secure position...
...Civil War Telegraph Operator Edward ("Little Rosie") Rosewater started the Omaha Bee ("Industry, Frugality and Service") in 1871 to further his dabblings in old guard Republican politics, carried the paper to national fame before his death in 1906. The politically powerful Bee began to slip under Son Victor Rosewater, did little better under millionaire Politician Nelson B. Updike who bought it in 1920, and was not helped when Updike merged it with the moribund Daily News, a onetime Scripps unit...
Publicist Miller, 49, whose grandfather operated a station of the underground railway in Canal Winchester. Ohio, before the Civil War, is a Lincoln Republican, a Methodist, a Son of the American Revolution. He has been in the business of peddling propaganda almost since he could walk. His first work as a boy was selling newspapers. He taught school for a year after graduation from Ohio State University but dropped that to write advertising copy for a Columbus department store. Working as a reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, he asked for the assignment to cover education, within a year shifted...
Unlike British Major Geoffrey McNeill-Moss's factually authoritative but notably pro-Rebel account of one of the most heroic episodes in Spain's civil war (The Siege of Alcazar; Knopf: $3.50), Sommerfield's book is unpretentious historically, uninsistent politically, is marred only by a too-obvious leaning towards Ernest Hemingway in style. It provides an excellent report of one man's experiences, impressions, in battle, offers in two or three of its episodes descriptions hardly-to-be-forgotten of life in wartime. For these in particular, most readers will find it valuable...