Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strengthened civil rights legislation...
Despite the return of Big Jim Farley after two campaigns on the sidelines, Democrats would meet in a somber mood. The hyphen symbolized their dilemma. Few would dispute Harry Truman's descent from Andrew Jackson, the party regular. But angry Southern Democrats, smarting under the President's civil rights program, believed that he no longer had any right to claim Thomas Jefferson. In Mississippi last week, 5,000 local rebels gathered to brandish the Confederate flag and issue a secession call for all "true, white Jeffersonian Democrats...
...What?" Then two shabby black cars drew up. On the windshields were stickers with the word "ravitaillement" (provisioning). A dozen men, in frayed but neat suits, bowlers or felt hats and white collars, got out. They looked like what they were-civil servants...
...fall ex-Trustbuster Thurman Arnold posed a problem to Helen Rogers Reid, mistress of the New York Herald Tribune. Arnold was representing a group of State Department employees who had been fired-on unspecified charges-in the Government's loyalty investigation. Arnold thought that an important question of civil rights was at stake. Said Mrs. Reid: "Why not get in touch with Bert Andrews...
...While we plan no definite action, Cambridge ADA will support the Marshall Plan, domestic economic recovery, and the civil rights program," A. M. Schlesinger, Jr. stated yesterday before leaving for the convention...