Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attorney General Frank Murphy, whose sister calls him Christlike, last week named the man to run his new Civil Liberties Unit: Henry A. Schweinhaut, the special assistant who prosecuted civil-liberties violations in Harlan County, Ky. and in Jersey City. Besides protecting liberty's delicate flower, Mr. Murphy last week received the grubbier task of rooting evil weeds out of the Federal judiciary...
...John Anderson, Lord Privy Seal and Minister in charge of civilian defense, announced that plans for decentralizing the Government immediately on the outbreak of a war have been made. England, Scotland and Wales will be divided into twelve districts, the civil and military affairs of each to be administered by an autonomous "dictator" during wartime...
...soon began to kick at the Gandhi traces. He forced Millionaire Jamnalal Bajaj, good friend of Gandhi, to resign as Congress treasurer for "reasons of health." He curried to the masses by charging that Indian Congress officials had jailed trade unionists, used the British police to shoot strikers, limited civil liberties. Most serious charge of all, however, was that Gandhi was leading Congress to accept the federation of British India and the Indian States. This measure, advocated by the British but fought by all Leftist Indian leaders, would unite the semidemocratic British Indian provinces with the 562 autocratic native states...
Professor Peers reviewed both the cultural and political aspects of Spanish life, particularly those affected by the civil...
When indignant members of Congress trumpeted for application of U. S. airworthiness rules to Imperial's aircraft, the hand-tied U. S. Civil Aeronautics Authority replied that it was bound by a reciprocal agreement for the New York-Bermuda route to accept Britain's requirements for Imperial's planes, just as England accepts CAA provisions for Pan American...