Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over & over Isacson hammered home the contention that Harry Truman had ducked the Palestine issue; that his civil-rights stand was mostly talk. Isacson wanted price control resumed, rent control continued, the Taft-Hartley Act revoked and subway fares kept at a nickel. And, most pleasing to the Communists, he was dead set against the Marshall Plan...
Novelist André Malraux, De Gaulle's highbrow pressagent, rang a tocsin of his own: he predicted that Maurice Thorez' Communist legions would soon launch a major offensive which might lead to civil war by April 15. Other alarms came from a less intellectual but intensely French quarter. In Paris, 5,000 midinettes, shivering in thin coats, protested against their dismissals by Paris dress houses (which were suffering a slump despite the New Look). Cried clothing union leader Alice Brisset: "Hardy measures are needed...
...Wallace followers are patriotic enough, in ADA's view, but both inspiration and string-pulling for the third party are based upon the international Soviet goal of destroying Continental economies in the service of Communist ascendancy to power. Recognizing the emotional lure of the Wallace symbol on issues of civil liberties and domestic reaction, ADA bases its appeal to liberals on opposition to Wallace's anti-Marshall Plan stand. Sacrificing the democracy of Western Europe, it claims, is "too high a price to pay for the luxury of a 'protest vote...
...literary life shortly before and after the Civil War is the subject of this recent and distinguished volume...
...Civil Rights Congress, American Youth for Democracy, and Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee all share the distinction of having been...