Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charges Alone," full-blooded Arikara Indian of North Dakota, who killed or captured 90 Germans in the World War, was appointed a letter carrier by President Coolidge last week and assigned to duty in Mandan, N. Dak. The President authorized Postmaster General Harry S. New to waive the usual civil service rules in the case of "Charges Alone...
...President received a report from the Civil Service Commission stating that, for the first time since the War, the number of Federal employes in Washington had fallen below 60,000 (to 59,849). The Treasury Department made the largest cut in personnel, 119; the Navy Department added the most...
...solid South" invaded the Republican stronghold in eastern Tennessee and captured Hardin County for the first time since the Civil War. All through the South the number of voters was small, averaging scarcely one-third of the usual electorate. Georgia and South Carolina, as is often the ease, had neither a state nor national Republican ticket...
Officiating Socialist. At the dais ordinarily occupied by the Throne stood that arch-Socialist Carl Lindhagan, Mayor of Stockholm, famous because he introduces before the Swedish Parliament every year a bill to abolish the Monarchy. He it was whom astute King Gustaf had chosen to perform the civil marriage of Astrid and Leopold. Hereafter when Mayor Lindhagan rises to present his bill there may well ensue jeers. Last week he testily remarked before the ceremony: "Of course I have no objection to uniting in marriage any two young people who appear to love each other." As the royal pair stood...
Guglielmo Marconi, radio engineer: "Last week I attended the British Institution of Civil Engineers in London; saw Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the marine turbine, receive the famed Kelvin Gold Medal. I addressed the assemblage, saying in part: 'I hope you will not think me too visionary if I say that it may be possible that some day electric waves may be used for the transmission of power over moderate distances, if we succeed in perfecting devices for projecting the waves in parallel beams in such a manner as to minimize dispersion of the energy into space...