Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just as Carlson had a warning for the U. S. in his first expose, so he offers a message now for a new national environment. During the war he pointed to the menace of soditionists, working for Germany under the protection of democratic civil liberties. Today he shows that the same men who lent aid and comfort to the Nazis three years ago have embarked on another, more ominous, adventure. "Their most important objective is to capture postwar America's most precions prize: the mind of the veteran...
With the post-Civil War social and financial revolution came a change to ostentation and opulence as a way of life for the nation's "leaders" and an ideal for the masses. Looking back at a once-scorned Europe, special arbiters plumped for aristocratic living, and the nation clambered to imitate. The race kept up for a while, petered out just before World War I, and shifted then suddenly and violently to short, dresses, simpler dinner-parties, and fewer chaperons. During the twenties, manners became big business for the Posts and Dixes, and America's attention shifted from...
...wasn't very civil of you to sit down without being invited," said the March Hare. "Your hair wants cutting" said the Hatter...
...During the Japanese war a compact, precise little Harvard Ph.D. ran Free China's small-arms factories, made them the best-administered of all Government agencies. Dr. Yu's reward was Nanking's toughest job: restoration of railroads wrecked by eight years of invasion and civil war. Given the rank of general, Dr. Yu runs his Communications Ministry like a military chief of staff, keeps detailed "phase charts" of his repair offensives. A scholar and administrator rather than a politician, he is generally respected (even by the Reds whose saboteurs persistently blow up his rails). Handicapped...
...President Berreta, who would take office on March 1, had had a first taste of political brimstone back in 1903-04. As a patrol leader, he skirmished on the side of famed Liberal José Batlle y Ordóñez in Uruguay's great civil war, was captured by the rebels and almost executed. As a Batlle follower in the Colorado Party, Berreta contributed to the hardheaded progressiveness that has characterized Uruguay for the past 40 years...