Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grudge against the Rt. Hon. Sir Dawson Bates, 60, Home Secretary of Northern Ireland. He had just taken charge of the police campaign to track down the extremists who did their best to reduce the royal visit to a shambles. Moreover, since 1922 he has been empowered by the Civil Authorities Act to jail indefinitely anybody suspected of sedition, has frequently exercised his privilege to the discomfort of Republicans...
...confession that they had been paid $3.750, inspected tubes found on them said to contain typhoid and sleeping-sickness germs and viruses. Although Death was the prompt sentence of the court martial. President Franco intervened, delayed the Frenchmen's execution "pending an international inquiry." With Spain's civil war in its 13th month, neither side had yet used poison...
Emerging from Valencia, the Leftist Capital, Correspondent William F. McDermott of North American Newspaper Alliance added his bit last week to uncensored lore of Spain's Civil War. "I should guess, on the basis of what is clear to the eyes here," he jotted in his notebook before leaving Valencia, "that a Franco victory will result in the creation of the most radical Fascist State that the world has known. A Valencia victory is similarly likely to end in the institution of a Communistic State that will make Russia look like a haven of economic royalists. No one talks...
...Government might pay the medical bills of citizens who could not afford to do so themselves (TIME, June 21). Last week, Senator Lewis took a step toward making the nationalization of doctors a reality by introducing a bill in the Senate to make all U. S. physicians and surgeons civil officers of the Government. The bill's provisions: "Any such physician or surgeon shall render such medical or surgical aid requested of him by any impoverished individual who is in need of such aid, and, where necessary, to order the hospitalization of any such individual. Any hospital to which...
...half, double its earnings for the same six months of 1936. And Steelman Weir is so thoroughly anti-union that S. W. O. C. not only has left him for the last but plans no move against him until the National Labor Relations Board and, perhaps, the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee, has put him in the headlines...