Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Interests of Government. A court which is not noted for its unanimity of opinion followed a fairly clear line on the main question of Lewis' guilt. Justice Wiley Rutledge dissented. He belabored Goldsborough for his failure to draw a clear line between civil and criminal contempt-on both of which counts Goldsborough had held Lewis culpable. "No case in this Court heretofore has ever sustained such conglomerate proceedings and penalties," Rutledge wrote. He and Justice Murphy both thought that Goldsborough should be reversed...
...Moscow Conference on Germany and Austria convened, Russian Foreign Minister Molotov remarked that the situation in China had not improved since the Foreign Ministers discussed it in 1945. (The interval had seen a full-scale civil war between Molotov's fellow Communists in China and the Chinese Government.) Molotov asked that the U.S., Britain and Russia exchange information on China. Secretary Marshall agreed, asked for time to consider the procedure for discussion...
Sick U.S. airlines were queued up a block long at the door of the Civil Aeronautics Board last week, wailing for fast first aid. Mostly, they wanted higher mail rates, higher passenger fares. (A notable exception was Eastern Air Lines, which asked CAB to approve a 10% reduction in its round-trip fares.) Some, in acute distress, had special problems. In fact, there were suddenly so many special problems that many an airman began to wonder: How well had CAB done its big job of supervising the airlines...
There is, besides, the larger though less immediately practical consideration of civil rights that should serve to slow down any frenzied Congressional attempt to be rid of the Communists "once and for all." No Court has yet chosen to decide that American citizen Communists constitute a clear and present danger to the government, and it is doubtful that such a suppressive law would be found in accord with the Constitution. Until the Supreme Court finds that a man, by belonging to the Communist Party is automatically an enemy of society, Mr. Schwellenbach's little plan for clearing things...
...beachhead is established by Professor Ivor A. Richard's article on General Education which he defines as "ordered questioning leading to . . . the highest or the deepest questions." From this point the questioning offensive broadens out to include every objective from civil liberties to foreign policy...