Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week French Finance Minister Paul Reynaud presented his first wartime budget. It was for a year and it was balanced all right, but the joker in it was that it covered only civil and not military costs. These were huge enough-79,000,000,000 francs ($1,746,000,000), or an increase of $500,000,000 over last year's ordinary expenses. A few items which might possibly be called military costs were included: $309,400,000 for the relief of families of mobilized men, $55,250,000 for refugees from the war zones...
...Britain may take good heart from the American Civil War when all the heroism of the South could not redeem their cause from the stain of slavery, just as all the courage and skill, which the Germans show in war, will not free them from the reproach of Naziism with its intolerance and brutality," cried Winston Churchill month ago. Vexed, Mrs. Walter D. Lamar, retiring president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, last week retorted: "That insult to the best part of America shows both ignorance and stupidity. . . ." Hastily Mr. Churchill's secretaries rushed off answers to letter...
...book suggests that his way of fixing things would be to have someone like Oswald Garrison Villard for Pope. He devotes more than 300 pages to accusing Catholic churchmen and laymen of all manner of misdeeds-pressure against the press and the cinema, devious activities in politics, assaults on civil liberties-which, though in part damaging, are not all germane to the subject. Privately last week, George Seldes admitted to friends that he was annoyed: for at least the first week after publication, The Catholic Crisis was not even mentioned in Manhattan newspapers...
Significant to Author Hendrick is the fact that the South's Civil War statesmen represented the "new men" of the cotton belt, not the aristocracy of the Old South. Jeff Davis was born in a log cabin 120 miles from Lincoln's slightly smaller birthplace. Vice President Stephens got his start as a "corn dropper" on his father's small farm. Secretary of the Treasury Memminger, born in Germany, was brought up in a Charleston orphanage. Secretary of the Navy Mallory helped his mother in a Florida boardinghouse. Secretary of State Benjamin...
Victory for the trusts, profiteering from the Civil War, land-grabbing, fancy promotion schemes enabled a host of new millionaires to grab economic control of the country and throw $50,000 parties, but these victories also resulted in the Populists, the Knights of Labor, the Sherman Anti-Trust law, the first Federal income taxes. Further victories for wealth inspired further income taxes, inheritance taxes, soak-the-rich propaganda...