Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese common man has one and only one wish-that is to stop the internecine civil war at once. Any outside interference from any country would only prolong and intensify his sufferings...
...past year, 793 Government employees have been fired for disloyalty to the U.S. This was the estimate last week of the Civil Service Commission, which reported that quiet investigations had also flushed out 18 other "disloyal" jobholders, who resigned. Civil Service Commissioner Arthur Flemming estimated that before the investigations were over, about 3,200 of the Government's 2,000,000-plus employees would be tagged as disloyal. The report did not define the shades of disloyalty. The War Department alone gave a hint: 158 of the 190 civilian employees it had fired were "ineligible for employment for disloyalty...
...employees and applicants. The Rees bill's board would act as prosecutor, judge and jury; furthermore, those accused would be denied the right to confront their accusers and would have no appeal to the courts if found guilty. To many people, these measures seemed to infringe civil rights. But all attempts to modify the bill failed; the House jammed it through, 319-to-61. A slightly cooler Senate was expected to lay it on the shelf...
...self-style expert on anti-democratic forces, Steele testified before the Dies Committee . . . Steele's testimony filled 402 pages, but less than seven pages were devoted to Nazism and Faselsm, Of 393 pages devoted to Communism, about 20 were set aside to prove that the American Civil Liberties Union was a Moscow Front...
...idea the other day to write a letter congratulating you on your editorial dealing with civil liberties and tactics. I let this opportunity to do good pass. A few days later you printed the logically curious effort of W. W. du B. and W. in which you were called fascists. It seems reasonable enough not to praise the CRIMSON, but this of Wilb, Wilcx, Whsde, and du Bou, will, in the words of another age, never...