Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pensioners of the Civil War; still surviving: 22,880, who draw a monthly total...
Nothing went according to those pat, rigorous socialist books he had read long ago. The struggle between the factions in the Republican Government reached the point where he was forced from office. He retired, accusing the Communists of using the civil war to take over Spain. But he remained loyal to the Republic, fled with its Government to France. There the Nazis found him, sent him to Oranienburg concentration camp...
...been found guilty by a Federal Court (in Washington, D.C.) of using the mails to defraud. Catholic Curley, who is a congressman ($10,000 a year) as well as mayor of Boston ($20,000), began his political career in 1903 with a jail sentence (for taking a civil service examination for a friend), yet has served four times as mayor, one term as governor, despite being forced to pay back $42,629 which he had grafted from the city. Charged Critic "Loughlin": Curley's "long career has been possible only through the support of large numbers of Godfearing, good...
Overseeing the new BCJ administration is Brigadier General Ken R. Dyke's civil information and education section (CIANDE) of Allied Headquarters. Three days after the occupation began, Dyke, a former NBC executive, began clearing the BCJ air. By strict censorship and appointment of the advisory committee, he freed noncommercial BCJ of government domination. He also ordered Japan to build some three million new radio sets to replace worn out sets or those destroyed...
Male & Female? Winthrop Brooks's great grandfather, Henry Sand Brooks, founded the store in a frame building at Catherine and Cherry Streets in downtown Manhattan when James Monroe was president and the U.S. flag still had only 20 stars. By the time of the Civil War, the store (which had already moved part way uptown toward its present address at Madison Avenue and 44th Street) was "the largest establishment of its kind in the world." Naturally, Union Generals Ulysses S. Grant, Philip H. Sheridan, William Tecumseh Sherman and Joseph Hooker campaigned in Brooks Brothers' uniforms. Abraham Lincoln...