Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friend and attorney for Mr. Hoover I write to say that your crack could have no result but to undermine the standing of J. Edgar Hoover as a unique, law-enforcing official, one who has impressed on our folkways a concept of law & order while still preserving full civil liberties even for law violators. Why don't you admit that the implications of the article were unfounded and unwarranted ? Why not say that your face is red? Surely TIME will not diminish in public esteem by such a brave admission of error...
Imagination and his handy penmanship, however, altered Charlie's destiny. He faked a civil service rating and got a job as deputy in the county jail. Deftly he removed his criminal record from the sheriff's files. He awarded a Master of Arts degree to himself and carried around a photostatic copy. With the credentials of a dead attorney he secured admission to the California bar. To reinforce the illusion, he attended a few law classes at Loyola University in Los Angeles...
...Missouri races. Coupled with at least fair G.O.P. chances in California, Montana, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Wyoming, this edge in the corn country might be the force which would put Massachusetts' Joe Martin the Speaker's Chair, and seat the first oppositionist President of the Senate since the Civil...
...lesser extent on economic principles. Its aim is to secure for all Americans, and eventually for all peoples, the highest possible standard of living-which is well above the one which new prevails. Furthermore, Liberalism unlike pragmatic Communism so opposed the scarifying any of our political or civil rights in order to obtain economic benefits. The fight for personal liberty was largely won in the nineteenth century; and while Liberalism is committed to the preservation of classic freedoms-freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of worship, it has shifted its emphasis to social objectives...
...selling the book openly in Cambridge. Mr. I, equally enthusiastic about constitutional rights and publicity, gave Cambridge Police Chief Leahy advance notice and was rewarded with a court summons the next morning when he handed Author De Voto his copy of "Strange Fruit." Counsel provided by the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union and the book's publishers fought the case unsuccessfully through the Massachusetts courts. Isenstadt still can't sell the book in Cambridge but believes that a great deal of favorable interest and publicity attended the incident...