Word: civilization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bill creating separate bureaus for Prohibition enforcement and customs in the Treasury Department and putting Prohibition agents under civil service...
...there is a man in the U. S today who merits the title of Grand Old Man," it is Mr. Warren. His fame goes back to the Civil War when he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for gallantry on the field of battle; back to the '70s when he, astride a horse, was making Wyoming something more than an Indian playground; back to the '80s when he was Governor of the territory; back to 1890 when he first entered the U. S. Senate. ... And perhaps in 1931, when his present term expires, he will be guiding...
...Schlesinger, Professor of History, to complete his researches on American Social and Intellectual Life from the close of the Civil War to the year 1900, with Particular Reference to the Urbanization of Population...
This answer ends the Government's civil action against Mr. Doheny. His leases are canceled; he will not be repaid the $12,000,000 which he spent in building a naval oil depot at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The Supreme Court went further. It said flatly that the whole transaction between Mr. Doheny and onetime Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall was tainted with corruption. The jury, which found these two old men not guilty of criminal charges (TIME, Dec. 27), may well consider itself rebuked by the highest court in the land...
...dual oil scandal. The other scandal was identical in most respects with the Doheny affair, except that in it the accused oil man is Harry F. Sinclair, and the leasehold in question is the Teapot Dome reserve. The exploiters have been restrained from further pumping until the civil case is decided by the Supreme Court in April. The criminal action against Messrs. Sinclair and Fall is still awaiting hearing in the lower courts...