Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everyone knew, "civil rights" meant, largely, "Negro rights." The platform makers, headed by Pennsylvania's Senator Francis Myers, had hit, upon what they thought was the perfect compromise. They parroted the 1944 platform, affirmed the right of racial minorities "to live ... to work ... to vote." As for federal guarantee of those rights, they called upon Congress "to exert its full authority to the limit of its constitutional powers...
...drafted a minority report. A.D.A.'s spokesman was Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr., 37, mayor of Minneapolis, who has a fast and facile tongue, political courage, and is opposing Joe Ball for Senator in November. The A.D.A. amendment commended Harry Truman for "his courageous stand on the issue of civil rights," and in somewhat obscure words urged Congress, in effect, to repeal the poll tax, set up FEPC, make lynching a federal offense, and end segregation in the armed services...
...with similar amendments. Cried Sillers: "Give us the right to govern our own fundamental affairs!" Then ex-Congressman Andrew J. Biemiller, of Wisconsin, a onetime Socialist who helped manage Norman Thomas' campaign in 1932, a colleague of Humphrey on the platform committee, presented the Northern minority report on civil rights...
From the 20-Yard Line. Harry Truman had taken a tremendous political gamble. One risk was that the special session might backfire on the Democrats: the Republicans might straightway haul up the President's civil rights program and let the Southern Democrats filibuster it -and the session - to death. Another was that Republicans might run away with the session. Already in the works were Republican plans for more investigations of the Democratic Administration...
Last week he survived another crisis, the civil servants' strike, and then this week he crashed, a victim of the law of averages and of the almost mathematical perfection of the Socialist Party's stupidity...