Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...replaced by Lieut. General Geoffrey Keyes); in Germany, Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay, now also commander of all U.S. troops in Europe. As contact man with the field, General Marshall had another Army ranker as Assistant Secretary of State for occupied areas: Major General John H. Hilldring, onetime Civil Affairs Division chief in the War Department...
...lesser posts and missions. Counting them up, the world could take note of a line in General Marshall's statement on China last week: "Though I speak as a soldier, I must here also deplore the influence of the military. Their dominance accentuates the weakness of civil government...
...week for the fainthearted. Donald R. Richberg, onetime NRA brain-truster, rose in Philadelphia to warn the nation that unless labor was put in its place, the U.S. would be driven "deeper & deeper into a political war which may become a civil war." And Bandleader Art Mooney, pondering what he had seen from the bandstand, reported that wild dancing to hot music was ruining the shapes of American girls. He noted their "piano legs, wide bottoms, thick waists, and hefty bosoms," feared an even uglier future...
...spends $500,000,000 on airports, how should the money be spent? Last week the Civil Aeronautics Administration, which expects to spend that much on the seven-year Federal Aid Airport Program, told how it hoped...
Acting on legal advice that Parkhurst's civil right's were being violated, the CRIMSON prepared to petition the Federal District Court for a writ of permission to interrogate Parkhurst...