Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...international aspect of the Chinese problem unfortunately has become somewhat clouded by demands for internal reform. Desirable as such reform may be, its importance is but secondary to the issue of civil strife now engulfing the land, and the two issues are as impossible of synchronization as it would be to alter the structural design of a house while the same was being consumed by fire...
...President talked like a New Dealer. And Adviser Clifford was kept busy scribbling. He wrote the tax vetoes; the Taft-Hartley veto; the October 1947 call for a special session; the State of the Union message last January; this year's Jackson Day dinner speech and the civil-rights message. There was no real difference between what these messages said and what a generation of New Dealers had said before. But in Mr. Truman's monotonous twang and Clifford's primer sentences, they just sounded dull. And after the speeches were made, nothing ever seemed to happen...
Because it is hard to shout intelligibly through a sugar sack, Green wore no mask. Spectacles glinting, mustache working, he began a tirade against President Harry Truman and his espousal of civil-rights legislation...
...Last week Georgia's Grand Dragon Samuel Green carefully explained that Ku Klux Klansmen wear masks to protect themselves against the prejudice of Jews, Catholics and foreigners. *Southern man has seldom condemned sexual relations between whites and Negro women; before the Civil War, when mulatto slaves brought high prices, the practice was encouraged. Today, approximately 70% of American Negroes have some white blood...
Flynn stated unequivocally that Truman will be nominated for the Presidency and that the Dixie uproar over civil rights legislation will be squelched at the national convention in July. "The Party will hold," he predated...