Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alice In Wonderland. Freshman Douglas stood his ground. He was as solid as any man for civil rights. But, he cried, "What would happen if we adopted the Bricker amendment? The answer is very simple. It would inevitably defeat the whole housing bill itself . . . It is no idle mind reading when I say that the adoption of his amendment would not win over the junior Senator from Ohio to support of the bill which he so sincerely dislikes . . . Senators will probably remember the passage in Alice in Wonderland describing the smile of the Cheshire Cat, which continued after...
...shoot her husband, they produced witnesses who vowed they were chatting indoors when the shooting occurred, Harlan County did not think things would go hard with them. Although killings in Harlan County (pop. 75,000) average 40 a year, only four men have been executed for murder since the Civil...
Then Britain's Harvey Moore, observer for the International Association of Jurists, went up to the banked microphones. The delegates cheered the news of Nanking's fall (see FOREIGN NEWS). Asked Moore: Did the partisans of peace want the Chinese civil war to stop? No, was the bellowed answer. Cried Moore: "You cannot be for war and peace at the same time." Freedom of the individual, of the press, of elections, were "vital to peace," he said, and asked: "Where are the cheers?" There were none. He declared that the "bureaucrats of the proletariat no less than...
Last week the Civil Aeronautics Board, prodded by the big carriers, announced that it would ground the nonskeds as of June 20. After that, any "large" irregular carrier (i.e., flying any airplane heavier than 10,000 Ibs.) would have to have CAB's permission to stay in business. In granting permits, CAB would hold the nonskeds accountable for such past sins as flying on what amounted to regular schedules, and thus, according to scheduled airlines, taking business away from them. Anybody who got a permit would have to stick to irregular charter service...
...much the same way, another amateur-turned-general, Richard Mentor Johnson, licked Tecumseh by using cavalry as mounted infantry. In the Civil War, two Northern generals, John Buford and Phil Sheridan, carried Johnson's tactic still further; they broke completely with the flashy hit & run use of men on horseback, and employed cavalry as "a fast motorized column of infantry...