Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Applied closure to force a vote on the Administration's bill creating a separate bureau of Prohibition in the Treasury Department, placing all Federal Dry agents under the Civil Service...
...previously extraneous force entering the Chinese Civil War, last week was the advance southwestward from Shensi Province into Honan of the "Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang with an army which has long skulked in Mongolia (TIME, June...
Therefore, the Calles womenfolk were in a delicate position, last week, on the eve of Senorita Natalia's wedding to Senor Carlos Herrera, a minor government official. Would big, burly Papa Calles insist that his daughter should have only a civil marriage, demand that she live out of wedlock in the eyes of Roman Catholics...
Papa-President Calles resisted tears, supplications. Senorita Natalia Calles was united in wedlock exclusively by the Mexican civil power. Then, on separate trains, the bride and bridegroom sped to San Antonio, Tex. At Mexico City the Papa-President clamped down his censorship, forbade Mexicans to print that at San Antonio a Mexican bride and groom achieved union through the Holy Roman Catholic Church...
Married. Natalia Calles, daughter of Mexican President Plutarco Calles; to one Carlos Herrera; by a civil ceremony in Mexico City (see p. 16). Married. James Orr Denby, nephew of onetime (1921-24) Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby, and lately appointed Second Secretary of the U. S. Legation in Peking;* to Phyllis Cochran, in Philadelphia. He in turn was to be best man for his best man, brother Charles, who will marry Rosamond Reed, daughter of Senator David A. Reed...