Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...employes in the U. S. Civil Service went, last week, a repetition of the standing order against participating, except in private conversations, in politics. The order specified against badges, buttons, stickers, automobile signs or plates...
Charles M. Galloway, U. S. Civil Service Commissioner under President Wilson, reminded people that the executive order upon which Departmental political regulations are based was issued by President Cleveland a generation ago and that it specifies that "no Presidential appointee or other unclassified employee . . . will be permitted ... to display such obtrusive partisanship as to cause public scandal ... to use his position to interfere with an election or to affect the result thereof...
...haven't got through yet." The twin sons congratulated him by cable from Paris. Father Agramonte still goes to his law office (except on holidays), is a patent attorney for Oilman Edward L. Doheny. He has fought all over the face of the earth-in the Civil, Cuban and Crimean Wars, in the India mutiny, in the Maori insurrection in New Zealand...
Maine. Though its presidential vote has been chronically Republican since the Civil War, with the exception of the split-year 1912, there is a certain post-mortem parallelism between Maine's state-election votes in September and the nation's presidential votes two months later. There was, accordingly, nationwide Republican whoopee when William Tudor Gardiner, Republican, was elected Governor of Maine by an 82,000 majority over Edward C. Moran, Jr., Democrat. It was the largest G. O. P. margin in Maine history and was shared generally by the full ticket for Senator and Representatives...
Died. Mrs. Marie Hungerford Mackay, 85, "the untitled Duchess," relict of John W. Mackay (Croesus of mines & cables), mother of Clarence H. Mackay (president of Postal Telegraph Co.); of heart disease in Roslyn, L. I., N. W. Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., the daughter of Civil and Mexican war veteran Col. Daniel C. Hungerford and his onetime Parisian wife, it was she who in the early '60s braved a squalid, vulgar Nevada mining town with her first husband, one Dr. Bryant. After his death she kept a boarding house in the mining camps. To her table came John...