Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long and the people adored and elected him. He built $200 million worth of highways, provided free textbooks for schoolchildren, lavished funds on Louisiana State University, went on to the U.S. Senate. He did the people some good but a lot more evil. He seized the state and throttled civil liberties. He said: "I am the Constitution around here." He said he carried four guns because "you can't tell when someone's going to shoot the king." In 1935, someone...
...raise a Red flag over the city hall. At that point the Reds, having completed their test run, seemed ready to take a breather and check results. The Communist-dominated labor confederation sent a letter to the Premier saying they were anxious "to avoid the peril of a civil...
With the focus on recent investigations of Hollywood, Thomas H. Eliot '28 will analyze the part such investigations play in aiding the execution of legislative powers, while Milton Katz '27, professor of Law, discusses civil rights...
...crash was Pilot Charles Martin. When his big Boeing flying boat ran low on gas over the stormy North Atlantic last month (TIME, Oct. 27), he had brought her neatly down off the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bibb and saved the lives of 69 passengers and crewmen. But as Civil Aeronautics Board hearings began last week, Pilot Martin (and crew) looked a lot less heroic...
Despite the manifold dangers he describes, Wittenberg emphasizes that they should hot frighten any newsman into doing less than his job. And he repeats what every good reporter knows: "The [provable] truth [in the U.S.] is ... an absolute defense to a civil action for libel...