Word: civilizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Philip Van Doren Stern, Ford visitor at Winthrop House this week, will speak in the Senior Common Room today at 4:45 p.m. His topic will be "Some Unexplored Areas in Lincoln and Civil War History." Stern is best known for his Civil War studies, his most recent volume being The Assassination of President Lincoln...
...week. Only the day before the emergency was declared, Nyasaland's Governor, Sir Robert Armitage, had flatly stated that no such drastic action would be needed. Now Sir Robert had suddenly taken a stand that seemed contrary to everything that this elegant, liberal, and somewhat indecisive civil servant had ever stood for. He had helped speed
...other end of Canada, labor unions were also about to get some lumps. In British Columbia, where strike-prone unions accounted for 17% of all man-days lost in Canada last year, the ruling Social Credit party introduced a bill that would make unions legal entities subject to civil suits for damages resulting from strikes. The proposed law would also ban sympathy picket lines, blacklisting of companies, boycotts of goods turned out by nonunion labor...
...recent deaths of some forty black Africans in civil disturbances in Nyasaland contrasts sharply with the image of a harmonious multi-racial state which Britain had in view when she formed the Central African Federation...
...hard to deny Dr. Banda a fine sense of timing, for just as Britain's Lord Perth was about to negotiate increased constitutional rights for the Africans and independence for the Federation--a victory for the moderates of both races--civil disturbances broke out and the talks were interrupted. Throughout the territory there were scattered instances of intimidation, property destruction, and the interruption of communications...