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Word: civilization (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...technicalities of the situation were discussed at a meeting this evening, which followed an afternoon session of the congress in which experts in government, labor, business administration, and civil service indicated their relation with the problem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Councillor Norton Calls Federal Setup "Hodge-Podge" at Guardian Confab | 12/10/1938 | See Source »

...likely that in order to put the best-trained men in the right jobs this proposed bureaucracy could be placed under the Civil Service Commission. One source of a president's power and his party leadership is his control of patronage. Should he be unable to pass out jobs in the present agencies as well as in the proposed bureaus, his only resource, since patronage is essential to his position as national leader both of country and party, would be the creation of temporary councils, commissions, and the like. Such a top-heavy executive structure would only end whatever democratic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, '39 MODEL | 12/10/1938 | See Source »

Aside from political interests, which he believed should be eliminated as far as possible, by an independent, trained, and permanent Civil Service, Hopf declared himself strongly in favor of the ill-fated Reorganization Bill which was killed by the last session of Congress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOPF CLAIMS INCREASE OF BUREAUS IS SERIOUS | 12/9/1938 | See Source »

...acting-but the play was new. It was not according to the "New Deal" script of Léon Blum, under whom as Premier one million workers were on strikes & sit-downs two short years ago (TIME, June 22, 1936). Premier Daladier took most drastic measures for Defense-or Civil War, if this week in France it should come to that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: For Defense | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Santo Domingo revolution, written from the Marxist point of view by a young British Negro. It bristles with harrowing atrocities, fiery denunciations of imperialism, but manages to give a vivid account of a revolution which greatly influenced U. S. history before the Civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Source Material | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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