Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sorry the Civil Liberties Committee at that distance from the situation sees things as it does," cried Chicago's Mayor Edward J. Kelly. "The Cook County coroner's jury was an unbiased jury of citizens." The Cook County coroner's jury was made up of six unemployed American Legionnaires...
Soon after Senator La Follette's Civil Liberties Committee started its investigation of death and terror in Harlan County, Ky., Irene Juno, "the flying reporter," made a flying trip to that coal mining district, wrote a gushing account of what she saw for the National Voting Democrat under the title "The Happy Side of Harlan...
Military experts of the Great Powers, hitherto inclined to see Spain's Civil War professionally as a small testing ground for the latest lethal equipment, took some-what more interest last week as the "Battle of Madrid" (TIME, July 26) grew to an extremely desperate conflict between roughly 100,000 Leftists and 100,000 Rightists-not "big stuff" by World War standards, but biggish. Hitherto Rightist General Francisco Franco has mostly remained at Salamanca, his capital, filling the role of Rightist Spain's President, but last week he hurried to field headquarters. There, rubbing his hands with...
...tossing Red Scanlon into a creek. The Toast of New York (RKO) exhibits Edward Arnold, previously seen as Diamond Jim Brady, General John Sutter and an Oregon lumber tycoon named Bernard Glasgow, as swashbuckling Jim Fisk, whose financial freebooting nearly disrupted Wall Street in the decade after the Civil War. Abetted by his young cronies, Nick Boyd (Gary Grant) and Luke (Jack Oakie), Fisk amiably horn-swoggles pious little Dan Drew (Donald Meek) out of control of the Erie Railroad, then makes a fortune by selling watered Erie stock to Cornelius Vanderbilt. Pursued by the law, he uses the Ninth...
...family name when they reached New York from Rumania in 1897. After his graduation from Cornell Law School in 1915, young Sam was advised by a successful Jewish lawyer to change his name to Lee. "I told him to go to hell." Two years of $35-a-week civil practice turned Lawyer Liebowitz to defending criminals. A debater and dramatic star at Cornell, he quickly found his genius to be mastering juries. A natural showman, daring, quick-witted, with expressive eyes, a mobile face, a wide-ranged resonant voice, the gift of oratory and an intuitive awareness of jury reactions...