Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's sound & fury was touched off by Virginia's portly Governor William Tuck in a loud speech before his General Assembly. The Governor put on his striped trousers and wing collar for the occasion. His double chin quivered as he attacked Harry Truman's civil rights program, (anti-poll tax, antilynching, antidiscrimination, antisegregation) as an "unwarranted assault upon the established customs and traditions of the entire Southland." Too long, he cried, had "the electoral vote of the South been counted . . . even before it was cast. . . . The people of the Southern states have been placed upon...
Shouts & Mutterings. Congress had spent the week clearing away a mass of legislative underbrush in preparation for the debate on ERP. There had been distractions. From the wings came the sound of angry mutterings and sudden shouts. It was the South's Democrats, denouncing Harry Truman for his civil-rights program. Republicans gleefully pushed and prodded. In the Senate, they dusted off an FEPC bill, pushed the House's anti-poll tax bill toward floor consideration. In the House, a Judiciary subcommittee voted out an anti-lynching bill. Heaping the coals higher, a delegation of Negro leaders waited...
...chief difference between the measure which received a favorable vote and the Barnes Bill in that the latter places responsibility for detecting and removing Communists on school officials, while the former leaves all action to civil authorities and the courts...
Bart J. Bok, Associate Director of the College Observatory, claimed in a speech to students of Renasclacy Polytechnic. Institute that Condon was the victim of "smear technique" and that the present action of the committee was a threat to civil liberties...
...scheduled airlines carrying passengers at night, or under instrument flying conditions, must be equipped with crash warning radars.* The original deadline, Feb. 15, has been extended by the Civil Aeronautics Board because the manufacturers could not produce the radars fast enough...