Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...congressional investigators achieved nothing else, they were dramatizing one fact: a man can be a Communist, or a "totalitarian liberal" and call himself a good American-but he cannot expect his fellow Americans to agree. All Americans could heartily echo David Lilienthal's "great belief in civil liberties." But if they believed in democracy and Soviet Russia too, as Henry Wallace did, then it was time they had their heads examined-or their hearts...
...people in Berlin's trade unions, nor the U.S., British and French representatives in the four-power Berlin Kommandatura -should decide the make-up of the union congress executive committee. When the Western Allies opposed an obviously rigged election plan, Soviet Major General Alexander Kotikov (an entomologist in civil-life) attacked them, in the Soviet licensed German-language press...
...preparation for the storm, of civil strife gathering around the Gruaer case, the British last week strung barbed wire through Jerusalem, ordered the evacuation of Rehavia, the city's best residential district. The shock of the evacuation notices spread consternation through the Jewish community. When she got her notice, Mrs. Rifka Benjamin, a 65-year-old Hungarian widow, fell dead...
...employer is trying to avoid the intent of the Fair Labor Standards Act by "encouraging" workers to put in time for which there is no remuneration, he is a fair target for civil or criminal legal action. But this is not the case in most of the $5,000,000,000 worth of suits now pending. Portal-to portal pay was something which had not occurred to either employer or employee. When the Mount Clemens Case opened a legal loophole for extracting wages above the amount agreed upon in good faith, labor, en masse, leaped to widen...
Outcome of what the E.E.P.C. office yesterday formed "economic discrimination found existing in Massachusetts," the law went into effect on August 21, 1946 after a long fight on the part of various civil groups to wipe out all Vestiges of racial and religious prejudice