Word: civilization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...They knowingly misled French justice! The role of these Americans was blameworthy and reprehensible." Thus intoned M. le Juge Adolphe Wattine of the First Civil Tribunal of Paris, last week. He had just rebuked and suspended three French divorce lawyers-Maitres Moreau, Legrand and Prestal-and was now warming up to flay their U. S. divorce clients and especially those U.S. lawyers who act in Paris as inter-mediaires between would-be-divorcees and the French avocats who alone may argue cases before the Paris Bar. Roundly naming names, Judge Wattine mentioned Dudley Field Malone, onetime Collector of the Port...
...heard. The Senators returned from digging up fresh dirt in Georgia, to hear some old dirt in Washington. Postmaster General New read letters and affidavits showing how postmasterships had been sold and levied upon in the Wilson days of 1917-20. The system, he implied, dated back to Civil War times and was common to both parties. Democrats demurred that the campaign contribution law had been changed since Wilson days and that the Georgia Republican State Central Committee had refined the illegal sale of patronage to the point of card-indexing its customers. Mr. New was requested to produce more...
...young girl when the Civil War came. A hero of the day was a young German named Henry Villard, war correspondent for the New York Tribune. After the war she married him. Chance made him the representative of some bondholders in Western railroads. Brains and force made him president of the Northern Pacific Railroad and a rich...
Every nation wants for itself the glory of making and breaking records. Italy is no exception. Vexed because major aeronautical records were scarce in Italy, because the Schneider Cup race had been lost to England, Dictator Mussolini last winter ordered civil aviators to concentrate on the problem of record-gathering. Obligingly, three faithful Fascists chalked up three new records in a little more than three months...
Reviewing the record of British civil aviation in 1927, the Air Ministry was able to announce proudly, last week, that for the third consecutive year not a single passenger was killed in scheduled commercial flights. The U. S. listened enviously, with reason. Air mail and air transport operations in the U. S. in 1927 were marred by six accidents, seven deaths...