Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...compilation by the Civil Service Reform League last week found that 99,000 Democrats in 17 States will be turned out of political jobs by victorious Republicans. In two States (California, Maryland) 9,700 Republicans were turned out by victorious Democrats. Mr. Garner was unimpressed by an election chart, said to have been prepared by the Jurizarlat. which purported to show that the New Deal's set-backs in November were largely local defeats, hinging on local issues, scandals, personalities...
That there is a rising tide of anti-Semitism in the U. S. comparable to Europe's is the contention of many U. S. observers, especially Jews. Last week the American Jewish Congress, an organization to protect Jewish civil and economic rights headed by Manhattan's patriarchal Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, published a survey specifically charting the effects of Depression and world-wide anti-Semitism on Jewish job prospects. Devoted mainly to New York City, which has a population 28% Jewish, the survey showed...
...Luis Diez may herself be interned, but the difficulty in this procedure would be that the British, sticklers for international sea law, have no strict legal right to intern a Loyalist ship because: 1) they have not formally recognized the Spanish War as other than a civil conflict; 2) they still recognize the Loyalists as the "friendly," legal Government of Spain; 3) they have not granted belligerent rights to Generalissimo Franco. Out weighing these objections, however, might easily be the consideration that a third attempt of the José Luis Diez to run for safety would again endanger British life...
...Prime Minister at Rome next week (see p. 21) that Britain grant belligerent rights to Rebel Spain, from London last week came hints that Mr. Chamberlain, for his part, would plead with Il Duce at least to stop boasting about Italy's part in the Spanish Civil...
Long before the Case of the Dirty Shirt, there had been reports that serious internal disorders were disturbing the Rightist side of Spain's civil war. The reports were re-newed and amplified last week. Italian and Spanish officers were said to have wrangled and fought each other in many cities. People who reached the French border from Burgos said 45 Italians had been waylaid and hanged outside that city, that the 11th Field Artillery there had mutinied. Arrests were put at from...