Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Handsome, bemustached Democrat McWilliams found himself pitted against the most popular Mayor Cleveland has elected since city managership was abandoned in 1929. Son of a professor of civil engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harold Burton migrated to Cleveland fresh from Harvard Law School, started practicing in 1912. He rode into the City Hall as a reform candidate in 1935. Now chunky, athletic and 49, Mayor Burton arrives at City Hall each morning at 8:30, works twelve hours a day, takes pride in his clean-up of the Cleveland police force, and although a Republican, claims credit for wangling...
...German, not extempore as usual but reading. "Comrades! . . . We shall never forget that Germany was not among the nations which imposed sanctions against us! ... Germany has awakened. ... I do not know when Europe will awake, for secret forces not unknown to us are at work striving to transform a civil war [Spain's] into a world conflagration. ... In answer to the question posed by the whole world, 'What will be the outcome of the meeting in Berlin, war or peace?' We-Der Führer and myself- reply in a loud voice 'PEACE.' . . . There exists...
...word pastoral letter last month, the Roman Catholic hierarchy of Spain detailed the reasons why they hope the Rightists will win the Civil War (TIME, Sept. 13). To Spain's Bishops this week was addressed an open letter which few of them would very likely ever see. It was signed by 150 U. S. Protestant churchmen and pedagogs, men of the calibre of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, John Dewey, Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, Editor Guy Emery Shipler of the Churchman, Methodist Bishop James Chamberlain Baker of San Francisco, President William Allan Neilson of Smith College. Agitated...
...same time it was stated that the Bureau, which offers free legal assistance in civil cases to the needy of Cambridge and vicinity, will increase its permanent staff from 24 to 33 men. As a part of the expansion policy, opportunity to work at the Bureau will be extended to third year students with an average of 65 or better in their Law School classes...
Prior to its closing, the Bureau had existed for 21 years, giving free advice in civil matters to annual average of 200 to 1200 persons. Resumption of the charity work was approved by the University on the condition that, "A practicing attorney shall be employed who shall be employed to supervise the work of all student members of the Bureau, who shall make all appearances in court on behalf of clients of the Bureau, and who shall approve in advance all advice given to the clients of the Bureau...