Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the stage direction of Wisconsin's senior Senator, the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee closed its investigation of Chicago's Memorial Day massacre last week in a tingling series of hearings. For nearly a month Senator La Follette had been building for this climax. All through the week a big screen and projection machine reminded audiences in the Senate Caucus Room that the finale was to be the suppressed Paramount newsreel of the riot outside the Republic Steel plant which cost the lives of ten men (TIME, June...
...past month, Spain's civil war has briskly emerged from spring torpor. Once again Rightist shells screamed over Madrid in bombardments lasting several hours each week-and one night of shelling was the worst Madrid had suffered in seven months. Once again the Leftists launched counteroffensives of some consequence, and the one against Rightist positions in Huesca was still battering away last week. Anarchists at last had a Spanish war legend worthy of the highest traditions of Anarchism. They insist that the death of Rightist General Emilio Mola in an airplane crash as his forces advanced upon Bilbao (TIME...
...Trust amended to establish eight districts of six States with twelve scholarships apiece, an arrangement which has since eliminated many an indifferent backwoods candidate. Last week alert Trustee Aydelotte was fittingly rewarded for this and other Rhodes services when Oxford University made him an honorary Doctor of Civil...
...knowledge as he is in beam. Before becoming a ranking authority on jurisprudence and a mighty scholar of the common law, he directed a botanical survey of his home State of Nebraska. He is as proud of the roscopoundia lichen as he is of his knowledge of Freemasonry and Civil War military history. Junketing in Europe last week, Roving Professor Pound in September will welcome as his successor in the job he has held for 21 years his onetime student, SECommissioner James McCauley Landis, roam Harvard to his mind's content...
Langdon Towne returned to Portsmouth, a bravo who could safely thumb his nose at civil authority, could even sell some pictures. Beauteous, snobbish Elizabeth, long out of his reach, began to bend towards him. Then came great Major Rogers himself, to be lionized. He treated Langdon bluffly as an old pal-and took his girl away from him. Langdon, heartbroken, sailed for London to learn more about painting. There,.four years later, he met Rogers again, still a great man but with the cracks beginning to show. Rogers was full of a scheme to find the Northwest Passage, will...