Word: civision
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Bernard Baruch, twice in two days cited and dined, received the 1944 Churchman award and the 1944 National Institute of Social Sciences medal, both for humanitarianism. At the Churchman dinner Elder Statesman Baruch spoke words of humanitarian wisdom: "We are the most powerful nation in the world. . . . When the war...
He had armed the Republic. He had kept faith with the people. In a general's uniform, he stood for the civilian substance of this democratic society. Civis Americanus, he had gained the world's undivided respect. In the name of the soldiers who had died, General George...
In charge of censorship Vargas put young Civis Muller, an officer of Brazil's Federal District Police. Censor Muller, ambitious, fond of authority, but with no newspaper experience whatever, issued a series of exacting regulations, some of them virtually impossible to obey, put censors in every Brazilian editor'...
After the deafening newspaper silence on Estado Novo's birthday, Getulio Vargas pondered for six weeks, then acted. Two days after Christmas he published a new decree (effective Jan. 1) abolishing both Civis Muller's job and Lourival Fontes', unifying censorship and propaganda under a single Ministry...
Last week amiable Lourival Fontes and hard-boiled Civis Muller waited breathlessly to see who would be chosen Minister of Press & Propaganda by President Vargas. Lourival Fontes got the call. Civis Muller went back to his duty as a policeman. And Getulio Vargas enjoyed his mamau once more.