Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then, Majority Leader Scott Lucas had had the assurance of considerable Republican support. In fact, he had hoped to have enough votes to apply cloture (limitation of debate), break the Southerners' filibuster, write a new rule widening cloture power,-* and, in the end, pass Harry Truman's civil rights program. Then Harry Truman put his foot...
...filibuster droned on, effective without being exhausting, Administration leaders had two choices: to continue the fight which they now might very well lose, or give up the civil rights program and get on as best they could with the rest of Harry Truman's legislation...
...Enactment of his civil-rights program...
...Communists have looked upon these strikes not from the trade union point of view . . . but as a weapon designed to create a chaotic state in the country . . . [They are] deliberately seeking to create famine conditions by paralyzing our railway system ... It is not the government's conception of civil liberty to permit methods of coercion and terrorism...
...baptism by the Protestant clergy have no legal recognition.* This is a particular hardship to our workers, who, since they are not legally considered married, are thus denied wage supplements for their wives and children. Our dead are denied interment in. church cemeteries, and because there are very few civil burial grounds, they must often be buried in the open field ... In Spain the hierarchy is more intransigent than in other countries. If we were a bigger minority it might be different, but the Church is determined to keep us small. We cannot even distribute church calendars through the mail...