Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Five months ago, Herman ("Hummon") Talmadge couldn't have been elected to the office of dogcatcher in Georgia. Then . . . Mr. Truman started yapping about Civil Rights. Every time he opened his mouth for one of those monotonous speeches, it meant thousands of votes for "Hummon." Don't forget that the South is basically defensive in its thinking. It knows it has no friends outside the South, so it thinks it can counter its enemies by electing people like Long and Talmadge . . . SEATON OWENS Marietta...
Getting down to current issues, Morse promised that he would press the fight in the Senate on Civil Rights legislation, outlawing of present filibuster techniques, amending of Taft-Hartley labor, bill, and insuring of Congressional actin on all treaties and 'executive agreements." The Oregon Senator stated that he thought war was not imminent. "However, I do feel that the greatest danger to peace now comes from the Pacific area," he continued, "and not from the Berlin crisis...
...buried alive. At 62, Douglas Southall Freeman, the nation's No. 1 military historian, is a past master at converting the legendary dead into durable heroes. He devoted 19 years to a four-volume biography of Robert E. Lee, the untouchable Galahad of the Confederacy; historians of the Civil War were agreed that the job need never be done again. Another six years were spent on his three-volume Lee's Lieutenants, a study in command and military personality so lastingly pertinent that General Omar N. Bradley made it his major reading in the days before the European...
...color, the refusal to jump to conclusions, and the blunt, graceless prose, have the persuasiveness of a courtroom exhibit. What Freeman once said of Robert E. Lee holds good for his approach to George Washington: "I know where Lee was and what he did every minute of the Civil War, but I wouldn't dare presume what he was thinking...
Those two masterly books brought Freeman invitations to lecture at the Army & Navy War Colleges and the Army's staff and command school. They also brought him the admiration of such men as Eisenhower, Marshall, Patton and Nimitz. Freeman still guides visiting generals over the Civil War battlefields near Richmond and no living person knows the terrain so well...