Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said critics of the bill: 1) it endangered civil liberties; innocent but misguided citizens were not given sufficient protection in the courts; 2) the bill could conceivably be used as a weapon against labor unions, or against any unpopular, radical or disaffected group; 3) the bill's phrases could be interpreted in various ways...
...important Americans and Japanese. When he holds forth to visitors, they are usually spellbound. Said C.I.O. Representative Willard Townsend: "I'm amazed. The man knows more about labor than I do. His ideas and convictions on labor are more progressive than mine." Said Roger Baldwin of the Civil Liberties Union: "The man's amazing. In all my years of civil liberties work, I have never found anybody with a greater understanding and a more sympathetic view toward the things we have been fighting for. Why, he even uses the lingo...
...Civil liberties were decreed-freedom -of press, speech, worship, assembly. Terroristic secret societies were ferreted out and abolished. The titles of the peerage were removed. Shintoism was dislodged as the state religion, although the people were permitted to practice it privately. The Emperor was reduced from the status of a god to a symbol of the state and of national unity. Streetcars passing the Imperial Palace no longer stopped so that the conductors could get out and bow. Young Prince Akihito might soon be asking his father what it had been like...
Doctors, dentists, and laboratory technicians can also expect to find immediate employment. A Bureau survey entitled "Employment Outlook" notes that civil engineers will find good prospects for the next several years, but those starting training now may find an overcrowded field before they graduate...
John William De Forest was so much better than so many writers who are famous that readers may reasonably wonder why they never heard of him before. De Forest was a Connecticut Yankee who married a Charleston girl and raised and captained a Connecticut company throughout the Civil War. His war novel, Miss Ravenel's Conversion (TIME, Aug. 21, 1939)> a failure when first published, went unread for nearly 72 years. His personal story of the Civil War, A Volunteer's Adventures (TIME, July 22, 1946), was published for the first time two years ago. Now it appears...