Word: civile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...describing the course of events leading to Angle-American friendship in the feverish years of imperialism which closed the last century, James P. Baxter, III, President of Williams, gave last night in New Lecture Hall his second of three lectures on diplomatic relations between America and England since the Civil...
With the same loud enthusiasm that used to shake the walls of Harvard 1, James Phinney Baxter 3d, President of Williams and former professor of American History, opened a series of three lectures on "Anglo-American Relations Since the Civil War" in the New Lecture Hall last evening...
Speaking on "The Aftermath of the Civil War," President Baxter began by emphasizing that the background for present relations between the two countries has changed recently from what it had been after 1865. "Germany and Japan have achieved a position such as has been enjoyed by no nation since the time of Napoleon," he said, "and therefore we must realize that the international situation has changed radically from the conditions existent during the period to be covered by my first two lectures...
...Tonight I will deal with that great trench of hate dug between the two powers during the Civil War and the eventual settlement of differences in the following period until...
...Congress, believing that the President will in the end blackball it. For labor's sake Mr. Saltonstall desires to eliminate the red tape in the employees' compensation law and to clean up the fly-by-night employment agencies. In addition, he hopes to remove the bad spots from the civil service and to provide reasonable old-age compensation. These intentions do not paint an administrator vibrant with reform zeal, but they do show one who will refrain from reckless promises and more reckless practices...