Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tight-lipped Imperial officials refused to tell reporters whether the Cavalier's, engines had carburetor heaters. Little better off than newsmen was the U. S. Civil Aeronautics Authority, which didn't know either. Under a reciprocal agreement, Imperial's planes are checked for airworthiness by Britain's Air Ministry at Bermuda. Pan American Airways planes, which ply the same route, are checked by CAA inspectors at Port Washington...
...President's order binding 37,000 WPA employes over into the Civil Service (for lifetime jobs) next month, should not take effect...
Next night 36 proud delegates attended a banquet given by the Civil Liberties Commission of the Colored Elks to honor six Congressmen chosen as champions of the underprivileged. A triumph was the banqueting place: the private red-&-gilt dining room (attached to the House Restaurant) of Speaker William Brockman Bankhead of Alabama...
...since its brief awakening after the Civil War has Southern literary life been as lively as it is now. Not since that same period has Southern life changed as rapidly as it is now changing. Political and economic news from the South is confused and contradictory; but Southern literary news snaps and crackles with unexpected items-with new writers discovered and old writers coming back, new magazines popping up and every mail bringing to publishers' desks fresh evidence of the South's literary ferment. In England (where T. S. Eliot's Criterion has called The Southern Review...
Southern decay in Faulkner's novels is no more romantic than decayed teeth. In the broadest terms, his picture of Jefferson's social history is this: Jefferson's men & women of the Civil War generation were strongwilled, ambitious, quixotic, ruined not so much by the War as by their own feudal code; their sons tended to linger long over the achievements of their ancestors as wealth and position slipped away; members of the third generation turned savagely on their parents when they found that the traditions they inherited did not square with the bitter actualities of life...