Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President, unhorsed in the Senate battle over civil rights, came a cropper again, this time in the fight in the House to overthrow the Taft-Hartley Act. Harried from every side, his congressional forces were trapped between a softened version of the Taft-Hartley Act and the Administration's moderately toughened version of the Wagner...
...Lynn, Mass., manufacturers of jet engines. They were taught that when another "heavy depression" hit the U.S., the time would have arrived to destroy its Government; that if the U.S. adopted an "imperialist" policy, i.e., one opposed to the policy of the Soviet Union, the party must wage "civil...
...little more urgent than the peace bids they had made during the winter for propaganda purposes. Miltiades Porphy-rogenis, Minister of Justice in the rebels' "free" Greek government, cabled President Herbert Evatt of the U.N. General Assembly, appealing for a U.N.-negotiated settlement of Greece's civil...
Away from war-clogged roads, but within earshot of the thump of collapsing bridges, China's peasants worked their land in immemorial rhythm. Across fields heavy with the smell of dung, water buffalo pulled ancient wooden plows. Civil war had hardly touched this part of China before. "We are a peace-loving, obedient people," said one old woman. "We are not rich. We want only to do our work. Will the Communists hurt...
Imposing amounts of evidence were presented by Simpson to illustrate the run down condition of public schools in the Commonwealth. More than 80 pre Civil War buildings and 176 one-teacher schools are still in use in the Massachusetts education system...