Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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China has no government properly speaking but is the spoil of military adventurers who march and countermarch up and down tha land in a conglomerate civil war. Noteworthy, this state of affairs makes it impossible for the Powers to abandon the safeguarding of their citizens in China by the principle of extraterritoriality under which foreigners are tried before courts of their own nationals set up in China...
...Powers recommended to the Government of China that if and when it shall come into existence it should draw up a civil and commercial code and modernize the Chinese judicial procedure. The Powers intimated that if and when this shall be accomplished they would consider gradual abandonment of extraterritoriality...
Roman Catholics devoted no time to answering a question which rose to the lips of many a Protestant: "Why does the Roman Catholic Church refuse to grant a divorce to a man and woman who have lived in civil wedlock; but instead grants an annulment, of which one effect is to inform the unhappy pair that they have been living together in an unmarried state...
...Spang Beauty" CORDELIA CHANTRELL - Meade Minnigerode-Putnam ($2). Among the quaint mysteries that survived the Civil War was that of The Messenger, or as she was later called, the Woman on Horseback, who rode back and forth through the Union lines apparently without the least difficulty and, according to rumor, often to the delight of gallant Union officers. This tale, a thoroughbred love story, purports to be that strange lady's biography...
...Alan's reception was no whit cooler, for all that. Encouraged by Publisher Lester D. Gardner of Aviation (weekly), he had come to the U. S. for a lecture tour in behalf of his passion and, of course, his pocketbook. His passion is commercial and civil aviation-flying for everybody-and in its service he has flown the length of Africa, the breadth of the seas between Britain and Australia (TIME, Oct. 11), without any preparation beforehand beyond ascertaining where he could pick up fuel. Interviewed, he spoke with scorn of parachutes: "Great heavens! If flying is so dangerous...