Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...angry editorial, the nearby Hudson Dispatch declared that a "friendless, helpless stranger" had been jailed for a very poor reason: withholding her identity. Manhattan papers took up the cry. Attorney James A. Major of the American Civil Liberties Union demanded that she be given a new trial. Offers of money, clothes and jobs poured in. The clamor got too loud for the sensitive ears of judge and prosecutor...
...such tactics, albeit sensational, do not involve dangerous violations of civil rights. The real danger lies in the ability of one man to create, dominate and pervert a Congressional Committee the way john Rankin has. When a Congressman can subpoena an American for taking a vocal role in an election campaign, can cite this same man for contempt and force him to waste his and the government's time with a costly contempt suit, and can deprive the witness of counsel in the manner of the better Inquisitors, it is time Americans look closely to discover where the shoe fits...
Time for Decision. This week TIME'S Nanking bureau cabled: "One fact is clear: a new and decisive phase of the civil war has opened. The greatest need for China is peace . . . but now it is possible and indeed likely that if China is to have peace, it can only be assured through a civil war fought to some kind of a decision. Without communications, China cannot survive, and today the plain fact is that until one side or the other clears those railroads, there can be no effective communications. . . . With Nationalist forces in control of the main lines...
...this haunted houseparty that she made her most brilliant capture- Colonel Olcott, cofounder of the Theosophical Society. Honest, credulous Henry Steel Olcott, part-time journalist, a Civil War colonel who had recently been admitted to the New York bar, was the perfect front man. A year later, he had deserted his wife and three sons to devote his time to serving the dynamic Blavatsky...
Braniff officials in Mexico City managed to get a temporary injunction against enforcement of the Government order. But airport guards (commanded by a nephew of the chief civil aviation official in the Ministry of Communications) ignored the injunction...