Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile in Rome last week the national government got a new vice premier. He was Randolfo Pacciardi, handsome 48-year-old leader of the leftish Italian Republican Party. As organizer and commander of the anti-Fascist Garibaldi Brigade on the Loyalist side in the Spanish Civil War, Pacciardi had fought side by side with Communists. He had thought for a long time that it was possible to cooperate with Reds, but he had changed his mind. "Until now," he said, "we have made attempts at pacification . . . but we cannot continue merely reciting prayers in a world of wolves...
...indeed an honor. J. Edgar Hoover and Byron Price were offered honorary knighthoods by George VI for their wartime services-Hoover as FBI chief, Price as Director of Censorship. Price could now call himself an Honorary Knight Commander of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire...
Cellophane Monopoly? Trustbuster John F. Sonnett of the Department of Justice got after E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (Inc.). In a civil suit, he charged that Du Pont had the U.S. Cellophane market so tightly wrapped that it 1) got more than $46 million of last year's $62 million total sales, 2) imposed production restrictions on American Viscose Corp.'s Sylvania division, its only competitor in the U.S., and 3) divided the world market with a four-nation cartel. Sonnett asked the court to make Du Pont sell enough plants to permit competition. Du Pont...
Wallace was wounded by the Battle of Shiloh as truly as its physical victims. He had acted with great speed and intelligence at the beginning of the Civil War, won promotion handily, justified it in the first battles. Then on April 6, 1862, he was camped at Crump's Landing on the Tennessee River, in command of the 3rd Division, while Grant assembled his divisions at Pittsburg Landing, six miles away. Grant did not know that Albert Sidney Johnston, with 40,000 men, was near. At dawn lightning struck, and Grant's Army of the Tennessee was nearly...
...China it is helping Communism to destroy our Pacific ally. Chiang Kai-shek's government is admittedly ugly and confused in action, she says, but if the U.S. waits for a democratic China before giving aid, the Communists will have won all. Once China is free from civil war and helped economically by the U.S., Chiang will come through on his promise to clean house...