Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seligman expressed it, the purpose of the organization will be to "preserve traditional civil liberties and to establish a consciousness of the problems of economic security." Members of the faculty as well as students, he said, have expressed a need for an ideological meeting ground between American and foreign groups who are interested in the formation of a third social force as an alternative to the extremes of the Left and Right...
...Truman got Lucas on the phone, brushed aside his explanations, and laid down the law. There would be no adjournment, Truman said, until his minimum program was passed. That included federal aid to education, housing and slum clearance and a 75/ minimum wage. He wanted at least a token civil-rights bill- either antilynching or anti-poll tax. Truman conceded that there was no chance this session for his health program, major civil-rights legislation, or his $4 billion tax increase...
...usual, not all the reviews were favorable. "The civil union of an Indian prince and his girl friend by a Communist functionary," sneered Los Angeles' Father Thomas J. McCarthy in his tabloid Tidings. Moaned A.P.'s Hal Boyle: "A strictly grade B script . . . how bad can times get?" The script was no worse than Rita's touted The Lady from Shanghai; like the film, it was expensive, pointless, and covered a lot of geography...
...Increase Civil Aeronautics Board salaries and staff...
...phenomenal and challenging" proposal to CAB, whose Chairman Joseph J. O'Connell Jr. does not impress quite so easily. He accused Rickenbacker, in effect, of staging a grandstand play. Putting Rickenbacker's newest offer into practice, said O'Connell, would mean amending the 1938 Civil Aeronautics Act to "create an absolute monopoly of north-south air transportation . . . east of the Mississippi." But Diagnostician Rickenbacker had, at any rate, called attention once more to the fact that since the war he has held the domestic monopoly on the secret of making steady profits...