Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...organization known as the Women of the Pacific, but advertised in a daily front-page box by the potent Los Angeles Times, was a law providing for compulsory incorporation of unions, publicity of union finances, disqualification from union office of all noncitizens (i. e., Maritime Boss Harry Bridges), civil suits against unions for strike damages, jail sentences up to ten years for disobedient union officers. This proposal has a companion piece aimed at picketing and boycotting, sponsored by the California Committee for Peace in Employment Relations which includes many a San Francisco shipowner and member of the city...
Driving southward behind the heaviest prolonged artillery and air bombardment put down in Spain's two-year-old civil war, Rightist forces of Generalissimo Franco, aiming for Valencia, last week burst and flattened a Leftist balloon-shaped salient of some 200 sq. mi. in their lines, advanced to within 34 miles north-west of their goal...
...publicity director" entrusted with the task of subtly influencing public opinion is a fact known to every sophisticated newspaper reader. Last week the subtle methods of a group of high-priced pressagents did not seem so subtle when illuminated by Senator Robert Marion La Follette's Civil Liberties Committee...
Founder of the 150-bed Halstead, Kans. (pop. 1,367) hospital which he gave away in 1933 to the Sisters of St. Joseph, "Pop" Hertzler, now 68, is a lanky, Ichabod Cranelike surgeon whom a Civil War veteran described as "the homeliest man I seen since I saw Old Abe." During his farm boyhood his favorite reading was Dr. Foote's Family Physician, and Hertzler recalls with satisfaction the time when he walloped a mean teacher with a slate-it pointed to "the ability to act quickly, accurately and energetically...
...Civil War Songs (Tues., 6:30 p.m. CBS) of abolitionists, slaves, election campaigns directed by Musical Antiquarian Elie Siegmeister, sung by Soprano Helen Marshall, Tenor Charles Haywood, Bass Daryll Woodyard, Baritone Hubert Hendrie and a male quartet...