Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since 1938 prices had been multiplied by 34 while wages had risen only 10-to 15-fold. A civil servant with a wife and three children, and earning an average 9,000 lire a month, now has to pay 3,000 lire for two pairs of flimsy shoes, or one gallon of olive oil, or 30 Ibs. of flour. In answer to LaGuardia, De Gasperi said that strikes and riots had forced him to give the people more bread...
Unanimous approval was given by the meeting to the message which read in part, "recent weeks have seen outbreaks of fascist violence against the Negro people such as threaten the lives of thousands of their race and the civil rights of all Americans--we urge that you use all possible law enforcement agencies to prevent further lynchings...
...Nanking insider sized up the crisis: "The trend of events indicates that the Generalissimo, while unwilling to risk an all-out, knockdown-dragout civil war is determined to push the Communists away from the railroads and out of economically important areas. The big question is whether the Generalissimo can keep the Communists bottled up on the sidelines while he achieves his objectives in a short time. If the going is tough the next two or three months, he will probably return to negotiation-provided hell does not pop beyond the possibility of control...
Last week Mme. Sun Yatsen, elder sister of Madame Chiang, broke a long silence on politics with a public statement that advanced the possibility of hellzapoppin China. Said she: "In recent years . . . I have avoided political controversy . . . [but] today we are threatened by a civil war into which the reactionaries hope to draw America, thus involving the whole world. . . . I feel it is necessary to speak. . . . The present crisis is not a question of who wins-the Kuomintang or the Communists. It is a question of the Chinese people. . . . The time of the Kuomintang tutelage is over. . . . A coalition government...
After a turn in Government jobs-chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, Under Secretary of Commerce-Ed Noble bought New York's station WMCA for $850,000. With it he acquired a lawsuit by ex-Owner Donald Flamm, who charged that Noble had coerced him into selling cheaply, for fear FCC would take away his wavelength. Flamm won another $350,000 in court. But Noble still liked radio. So after FCC ordered NBC to divest itself of either the Red or Blue network, Ed Noble paid $8,000,000 for the Blue, the biggest deal in radio history...