Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pegasus, Daedalus & Icarus, Archytas, da Vinci, Mongolfier, Santos-Dumont, von Zeppelin, Langley-with these names, the historical roster of aviation, President Coolidge led up to his tribute to the Wright Brothers, in an address to the 125 delegates at the International Civil Aeronautics Conference (see p. 23), which President Coolidge had called to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Wrights' first flight at Kitty Hawk...
...Yuan is that of Justice, headed by the great Chinese jurist Wang Chung-hui, onetime representative of China on the World Court. The third or Legislative Yuan is a large council of from 49 to 99 members, with parliamentary initiative. The fourth and fifth Yuans are those of Examination ("Civil Service") and Council Control (having powers of impeachment and audit...
...without foreign interference. The new schedules provide an average tariff of 18%, as opposed to the former 5% plus 2.5% surtax. In defending this sharp increase Finance Minister T. V. Soong declared, probably quite truthfully, that the new Nationalist Government is "in imperative need of funds" to liquidate their Civil War Debt and carry out their impressive programs of peaceful development and reform...
Largest store in the Hahn combine is Jordan Marsh Co. of Boston. For 78 years Boston shoppers have been going to Jordan Marsh's, which, during the U.S. Civil War, did a large cotton business through the energy and shrewdness of a young employe named James Fisk. When the war was over, the Jordan Marsh Co. found that Fisk's temperament was not adapted to peacetime merchandising, ousted him. Fisk went on to a career of high finance, became the Jim Fisk of Black Friday*and similar notoriety...
...Dispatch. Young Joseph Pulitzer was a familiar figure in St. Louis, and somewhat alarming, when he founded the Post-Dispatch. Born in Mako, Hungary, in 1847, of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, he came to the U. S. to enlist in the Union cavalry during the Civil War. When the war was over he found life difficult, and eventually put in practice the advice of an editor somewhat less famed than he himself was to become: Greeley, with his "Go West...