Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more confident sentences, Scott Lucas dumped the rest of Harry Truman's fondest projects over the side. Lucas saw little hope for the Fair Deal's social program. He "seriously doubted" if anything could be done about civil rights. "We had a program that couldn't possibly be enacted by any Congress in seven months," he added (though Harry Truman, a year ago, had said that the "terrible" 80th Congress could pass a comparable program in 15 days, if it really wanted...
...University could conceivably bring a civil action to get back the money it lost, by attaching the King's salary from Collier's. More than 30 years' interest added to the $678.67 might make it worth a try. Maybe endow a small chair in Criminology...
Yale University is caught in a mystifying web of "cold war" security. So is Harvard. So is M.I.T. So is the country. What makes Yale different is that Yale is scared--scared right out of its civil liberties. The older faculty men, secure in tenure appointments, are just worried. Certain faculties, notably those of the law and medical schools, are not even worried. But the younger faculty members and the graduate students, especially in the physics department are scared stiff. "We're afraid to open our mouths on any idea left of Wilsonian liberalism," one physics instructor says. Other young...
Anyone looking at Alexander Foote a second time might remember him, but the chances are he wouldn't be looked at twice. A quiet chap of 44, about 5 ft. 9 in., with thinning, mouse-colored hair, he looks like the British civil servant he is; he works for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries now. But back in the '30s, he was a disgruntled salesman who had swallowed communism hook, line & sinker...
When the Spanish Civil War came, Foote went to Spain and fought with the 6th International Brigade. Perhaps it was his near-genius for inconspicuousness that made Foote just the man for the Russians. When British Communists recommended him for a dangerous "assignment" on the Continent, he jumped at the chance, entered the Red army intelligence six months before the fall of Madrid. He became a cog in an espionage network that Fed information directly into Red army headquarters in Moscow. Except for an interval in a Swiss jail, he worked for the Russians until 1947. But long before that...