Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...politics, had worked tirelessly for years to induce Chiang to clean his dirty, disordered house which had scarcely known a day without war-against the Communists, the Japanese (for eight years) and again the Communists. Every one of the U.S. envoys wanted to soften Kuomintang one-party rule, guarantee civil liberties, suppress graft, reform landholding, balance budgets...
...Czechoslovakia the government produced a package of priestly "high treason." The Rev. Alois Fajstl, the state announced, had been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment plus confiscation of his property and loss of civil rights for ten years. The charge: when called to give the last rites of the church to a woman apparently dying of pneumonia, Father Fajstl first asked if she were a Communist, then withheld the sacrament until she had sent her son to party headquarters to turn in her membership card. Instead of dying, the government said, the woman recovered and denounced the priest for thus...
Faced with steadily mounting opposition from the followers of President-elect Otilio Ulate, who have forgotten that Figueres won last year's civil war for them, he went to the people in a radio broadcast. "Costa Rica," he declared, "must not be at the mercy of a social clique. It must not be committed to a feudal system with a puppet congress manipulated for political purposes by a reactionary group...
...order the council to seat him. Then he set about preparing his case for a hearing late this month. The court will be asked to decide whether the Maryland code is depriving Stanford of his constitutional rights under Amendment 14, Section 1, of the U.S. Constitution, which protects basic civil rights of U.S. citizens from abridgment by any state...
...Francisco detectives who ate their lunch at a Kearney Street bakery back in the 1870s all liked soft-spoken old Charley Bolton. Charley, a Civil War veteran who lived in a nearby rooming house, often sat at the detectives' table and chatted with them, sometimes about Black Bart, the bandit nemesis of Wells Fargo stagecoaches...