Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other course was an increasing intolerance of any infringement on civil rights. In recent years, some 30% of the court's cases (and the court may choose the cases which it will consider) had to do with the rights of citizens in a democracy. The court upheld, though tentatively, the right of a Negro to live where he liked. It upheld his right to equal schooling, and to the vote-leaving the details to Southern legislatures. After first backing & filling on questions involving Jehovah's Witnesses, the court finally upheld the right of that sect to propagandize religious...
...fact, by its zeal in guarding civil rights the court has provoked some sardonic comments in the Department of Justice. Since 1947, the Department of Justice has not won a single search-and-seizure case; in reversing the Government, the court has opened jail doors wide to let known felons out. In the Trupiano case, G-men pinched a gang of bootleggers whom they had watched manufacturing alcohol for months. The court would not admit the alcohol as evidence because the G-men had no search warrant when they seized it. That much zeal for civil rights, Government agents felt...
...surplus planes-like the Strato Freight Co., which operated the Commando in last week's crash. It hauls the islanders for $60 one way, flies whenever it has a load. It had operated strictly within the letter of the law. Refurbished and approved in April by the Civil Aeronautics Authority, the Commando was actually flying 500 pounds under its gross weight limit, 45,000 pounds. In Puerto Rico last week, there was agitation to tighten up the regulations: obviously something was wrong when 116 lives were lost in two years...
Collateral. Resort put out such tours as a $91.25 eight-day all-expense trip (New York to Lake Placid), and $785 for a 16-day tour through the West. Soon Resort was flying to Canada, the West Indies and Central America under temporary permission from the Civil Aeronautics Board...
...Rios, as Minister of Justice, started a reform program (to break up the aristocracy's large land holdings) and tried unsuccessfully to separate church and state. As Ambassador to the U.S. (1936-39), he fought for U.S. aid to Republican Spain, went into exile when Franco won the Civil...