Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other Truman remedies for shortcomings were: a prepaid medical-insurance program; federal aid to schools; the Truman civil-rights program. He also asked for universal military training, broadening of social security, extension of reciprocal trade treaties for three years. He wanted repeal of the Taft-Hartley law and re-enactment of the Wagner Act with some "improvements" such as a ban on jurisdictional strikes. Then he called for new taxes to raise $4 billion in additional revenues and five days later sent along a 1,400-page budget to explain it. He no longer advocated, as he had last year...
...best of Séan O'Faoláin's stories belong with those of Chekhov. This 48-year-old Irishman, born in Cork, fought in Ireland's Civil War and afterwards, in Midsummer Night Madness, wrote a series of haunting stories about it. They had the hard authenticity of firsthand pictures of war and revolution, with none of the drab, repetitious prose that is now almost a trademark of war novels. His themes were as subtle as Turgenev's, with clear and vivid pictures of action, but the distinction of his work was its fine...
...filling the gap between the Sumerian palace and the Civil War White House Millia Davenport devoted seven years. The result of her labor of love will impress the couturier and fascinate the housewife. The Book of Costume is also more instructive than many a history book, because it does not stop at tracking flares and gussets down through the ages. It is a history of the ornaments used by-men & women to add the finishing touches to their apparel-enameled watches, canes, necklaces, lap dogs...
...Student Aid Program, initiated last year, places qualified undergraduates in temporary appointments in engineering (civil, electrical, and mechanical), chemistry, physics, mathematics, metallurgy, naval architecture, and psychology. Last year the program handled 58 students from 17 New England colleges...
Applications for the general examination, which closes January 20, must be made to the Civil Service regional office in Boston...