Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Antietam Battlefield, north of Washington, the President spent 40 minutes watching a re-enactment of the bloodiest day of the Civil War. Saving most of his fire for his Constitution Day address in Washington the same evening (see col. 3), he got a cool response to a short speech which contained only one notable reference to the New Deal: "I believe also that the past four years mark the first occasion, certainly since the War Between the States and perhaps during the whole 150 years of our Government, that we are not only acting but also thinking in national terms...
Mandate over Spain? The real bombshells of the Geneva week were exploded by two representatives of British dominions. Up at the Council table popped New Zealand's William Joseph Jordan. "The League should assume a mandate over Spain!" he proposed. "It should hold fair elections to end the civil war." Hasty adjournment of the Council squelched this concrete proposal. The other dominion bombshell was exploded not at Geneva but at Montreal by South African Delegate to the League of Nations Charles Theodore te Water. He declared that South Africa "would be willing to participate in a general agreement...
...play pirate any more in view of the forces arrayed, the big fact then is that Non-Intervention was scuttled last week, and thus the seas around Spain are open for either Rightists or Leftists to import unlimited munitions and men, redouble the vigor of Spain's civil...
...entertainment side, Miss Farmer's beauty, Mr. Arnold's laughter, Mr. Grant's clothes, Mr. Oakie's face, and the naive antics of post-Civil War Wall Street speed the picture's pace. Donald Meek provides an amusing if untrue underdog Daniel Drew. Hauntingly the refrain of "The First Time I Saw You" pervades the whole...
...Hurston paint their racial pictures, with little shading, in glistening blacks and lurid tans. But to white readers who object to their violent brushwork they might truthfully reply: Negro life is violent. Author Turpin's story traces the fortunes of a Negro family from its uprooting in the Civil War to its rootless present. Martha, daughter of a plantation slave, died too soon to prevent her daughter from growing up in a bawdy house. Her granddaughter, starting off as a respectable farmer's wife, ended up on the Harlem stage, mothered a high-minded athlete who was painfully...