Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Summer letters, written to him while he held office in Washington during the critical period of the Civil War, are largely from disgruntled gentlemen who criticised the government by writing to men in power, much as do those who write to their Congressmen with their grievances today. One correspondent of Mr. Sumner, for instance, writes to say that, in his opinion, the trouble with the Navy was its intemperance...
...resignation of R. T. Bunker 4 ES as president of the Harvard chapter owing to his duties as Instructor in the Civil Engineering Department precipitated the early elections...
Significance. While observers are unanimous in predicting several years more of civil war for China, the events of the last fortnight have definitely transformed the presumption that a strong Chinese Government is to be found in Peking to the possibility that it may be found in the not distant future at Canton. The U. S. Minister to China, John Van Antwerp MacMurray, sensitive to this trend, was reported to be in Canton last week, despite his previous announcement that he had left China for the Philippines. Simultaneously negotiations were reported progressing to end the anti-British boycott. The emergence...
Underlying causes: 1) nationalization by Soviet Russia of a doubtful majority of the Bank's shares; 2) disorganization due to civil war of the Chinese Eastern Railway largely owned by the Bank; 3) record depression of the world silver market last week to 59? an ounce, the Bank having the largest silver holdings in China...
...thwarts the destiny of Mr. Walker. In Honduras there is a final "spectacle"-a firing squad . . . the limp body of the destiny-man ... a clatter of hoofs . . . the sparing of Peter, who returns to Manhattan, to the waiting arms of Lydia van Ruysdyck. They marry. He leaves for the Civil War. Says Lydia,: "I think des- tiny is just another word for life. ..." The author has handled the personages of 1855-60 with a casual ease that his own creations lack. In addition to Messrs. Vanderbilt and Walker, it is Journalist Horace Greeley, Shipowner "Liveoak George" Law, and Abraham Lincoln...