Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Free v. Chosen Instruments. James M. Landis, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, predicted that U.S. airlines flying transatlantic routes (Pan American, T.W.A., American Overseas) would soon be showing profits on Atlantic operations exceeding the airmail subsidies they receive from the Government. Landis discounted the danger of harmful competition from foreign-government-sponsored lines, which might force the U.S. to name and back a "chosen instrument" of its own. "What scares me now," said he, "is that we won't get effective foreign competition." Three days later, President Truman's Air Coordinating Committee, of which Landis...
Small politics usually make small novels, and The Lightwood Tree is no exception to the rule. Yet from the politics of his home town, Berry Fleming of Augusta, Ga. has succeeded in distilling enough of the historical essence of U.S. freedom and civil liberties to give The Lightwood Tree a realistic urgency rare among Southern novels outside the field of the race problem. The explanation is easy: large, balding Berry Fleming is a successful political operator himself. He was the intellectual sparkplug of a daring and determined revolution in Augusta...
Deeply disturbed, Cliatt gets him out and gradually becomes the local protagonist for civil liberties. Cliatt's attempts to rouse the people to their peril ends up in a drubbing at a revivalist meeting from which only Cliatt's conscience emerges clean and whole. A-Revolutionary War episode at Fredericksville is neatly interlaced to provide the historical perspective of the little man struggling almost alone for the common good...
...Hawley's account, Psychiatrist Karl Menninger diagnoses Custer as a psychopath marked by extreme vanity, inhumanity, ruthlessness and a complete lack of loyalty to any friend or cause. Dr. Menninger notes some glaring symptoms of severe neurosis: Custer was noted for gaudy uniforms and bad manners; during the Civil War he stole a pair of spurs given by General Santa Ana to the father of one of his friends who was a Confederate officer; he often exposed his troops to unnecessary danger and slighted their medical care; in his attacks on Indian camps he habitually slaughtered the women & children...
...some years a Prussian civil servant, later vice consul in Zurich, Author Gisevius claims to have been a member of an eager, unstable and heterogeneous group which schemed against Hitler from the Reichstag fire (1933) down through World War II. He regards Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg (the man who nearly killed Hitler on July 20, 1944) as a Johnny-come-lately with half-Nazi ideas of his own. It was Stauffenberg who lugged a bomb-laden briefcase into field headquarters at Rastenburg, East Prussia, and left it to explode under Hitler's nose. The blast gave Hitler...