Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well for the desperate, starving Shantungese. If they are not to perish many a hard job must be done, just such job as Feng's tough soldiers are well schooled to do-farming, road building, weaving, dike construction, and rehabilitation of areas ravaged by China's civil...
...Pope can be convinced that Louis died in order to remain a faithful Catholic, canonization, according to yesterday's press dispatches from Paris, awaits the ill-fortuned Bourbon. Certainly complete devotion' to Catholicism and to Rome, well illustrated by his dogged resistance to the Civil Constitution, contributed not a little toward Louis' condemnation. It can even be argued with assurance that religious motives contributed as largely toward his execution as toward the martyrdom of Joan...
...late Henry Pomeroy Davison initiated the renaissance of the Guaranty Trust Co.* The bank had been founded (1864) during the crooked financial period of the Civil War. It was then called the New York Guarantee & Indemnity Co. The late Samuel D. Babcock kept its financing reputable through the dishonest '70s. Thereafter its honesty was no longer necessary, for it ceased to exist except as a name and the title owner of a piece of Long Island real estate...
During the Mexican War, Bennett established a courier system for the Herald correspondents; he covered the Civil War with 40 reporters on the various fronts. As a source of news, the Herald dominated the U. S. field and was practically the only U. S. newspaper read in Europe. President Lincoln, knowing the importance of the Herald, once offered Bennett the portfolio of Minister to France...
...took command of the Herald at the end of the Civil War, spending more time in Europe than in the U. S., continuing his flamboyant exploits. But his word was law, whether shouted across his New York desk or cabled from Paris. He had two supreme maxims...