Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vacancies in Philadelphia's Third Circuit Court of Appeals (TIME, June 13), the President elevated cute, caustic, gangling District Judge William Clark, 47, foe of the late 18th Amendment,* now presiding over C.I.O.'s suit for an injunction against interference with civil liberties in Jersey City...
...Approved the O'Mahoney-Ramspeck Bill putting first, second and third-class postmasters under Civil Service (extended to fourth-class postmasters...
...famed Guadalajara battle of March 1937, between Italians and Spanish Leftists. Described by U. S. and British newshawks on the scene as a panicky rout for the Italians, it now appears in Italy's press as one of the country's five "great victories" of the Spanish Civil...
...week with a repertory that included such old-timers as Chimes of Normandy, Rosalie, Show Bout, and Roberta, such latter-day specimens as White Horse Inn. Opener for the twelve-week festival was a brand new work by owl-faced Old-timer Jerome Kern entitled Gentlemen Unafraid. With a Civil-Wartime libretto carpentered by the experienced hands of Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II, Gentlemen Unafraid maintained the best swashbuckling, love & war traditions of the Herbert...
Speyer & Co. was founded in Manhattan in 1837. Its reputation grew as it sold U. S. securities in Germany during the Civil War, as it handled railroad reorganizations, as it floated the first loan to-Cuba. In 1885, James Speyer, after being bound apprentice to the family firms in Paris, London, Frankfurt, went to the U. S. firm. For at least the past 30 years he has run it in an arbitrary, single-minded fashion. He floated a vast amount of foreign loans, financed railroads, built power plants in Manila and a railroad in Bolivia. But the War upset...