Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announced as George L. Vaughn, a delegate from St. Louis and a member of the credentials committee; he wanted to submit a minority report. The majority had agreed to seat the Mississippi delegation. But the Mississippi delegation, Vaughn charged, intended to walk out if Harry Truman's civil rights program was incorporated into the platform and if Harry Truman was nominated. He recommended, therefore, that the Mississippi delegation "not be seated." He clenched his fist, yelling: "Three million Negroes have left the South since the outbreak of World War II to escape this thing. I ask the convention...
...platform, roaring for recognition. They all wanted it to be announced that their delegations had voted against Mississippi. On the platform Shelley barked into the ear of Sergeant at Arms Leslie Biffle: "You'd better not cut the mikes on us tomorrow when we start talking on civil rights...
...party's worried leaders had done their best to produce something which, if it failed to please everyone, at least would not rile anyone very much. They had kept in touch with Harry Truman, whose cautious advice had been to keep the specific points of his so-called "civil rights" program out of the platform...
...TIME, March 1) against cooperating with the Act. But 21,341 out of 23,000 general practitioners had eventually signed up. To ease their pain, Health Minister Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan had held out a placebo: his government had no plans to make the doctors full-time civil servants. They would get a "base pay" of about $3.50 a year for each patient on their books. Estimated top income, with all extras, like obstetrics : $20,000. Estimated income for a solo practitioner with the maximum 4,000 patients...
...ancestry, there was plenty of force, vitality, toughness, love of action. His mother was descended from a doughty line of French Huguenots; one of them was a rifle-shooting chaplain with George Washington's army. Another was a hell-for-leather cavalryman in the Civil...