Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spain? To Americans who had opposed the creation of an international police force because that would let Soviet troops into Palestine, the Zionists had an answer. If the Palestine problem were allowed to drift, there might well be full-scale civil war when the British withdrew, giving Russia the chance to turn Palestine into a pre-World War II Spain. And in that case, the U.S. would eventually be forced to intervene, and at greater cost...
...most fun the Republicans had all week was listening to caterwauling Democrats, squirming under the President's civil-rights program with its proposed elimination of Jim Crowism on railroads and buses. Screams of rage and threats of revolt poured forth from Southern Democrats. Roared Mississippi's Senator James Eastland: "This proves that organized mongrel minorities control the Government." From the House floor, Georgia's Gene Cox chanted: "Sounds like the program of the Communist Party...
...named to command MATS was lean, able Major General Laurence S. Kuter, U.S. representative to the International Civil Aviation Organization in Montreal, who recently turned down a post as CAB chairman, when the Senate refused to let him keep his rank and higher Army pay on the new job. He would take over the command of MATS on March...
...unheard above the sound and fury raised against the Barnes Bill have been the charges attacking H 1597. But H 1597, labeled the "Little Dies Committee Bill" by its opponents, constitutes a greater threat to civil liberties than does the Barnes Bill; it is not limited to the field of education and there is far more likelihood that it will become law. The Bill provides for a committee on subversive activities in the Massachusetts legislature which would bring the Dics-Rankin-Thomas type of investigation down to the state level...
...employed the weapons of public suspicion and smearing, so this committee could intimidate citizens from exercising their constitutional right of petition and thus stifle opposition to legislative policies which it favored. Such a committee could go beyond its avowed purpose of investigating totalitarian movements and further threaten those civil liberties which are already in peril...