Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Putnam was busy fighting in the Civil War when 21. 2) If England chooses to allow Major Putnam to vote, because he owns property and pays taxes there, that in no way invalidates his U. S. vote. 3) Major Putnam's first vote, at the age of 20, was cast for President Lincoln's reelection, but as Major Putnam was in Libby Prison at the time, his vote was not counted anyway...
...bandits, why not an army of artisans? The Christian Marshal's answer is to teach all his soldiers some useful trade. One battalion weaves on portable looms, another carpenters, another makes boots, and their prices are "right." The result is that during the long seasonal lulls in Chinese Civil War the soldiers of Feng Yu-hsiang have been busiest and most welcome. Clean and well-disciplined, each member of the mob that is now an army takes his turn with washboard and with...
...182.Since Japanese colonists teem in Manchuria, the spread of Chinese civil war to that province would be of gravest international concern; and the Japanese Government has long since averred that it will intervene to prevent such an eventuality (TIME, April...
...182.That such is still the intent of Japan was shown last week when Vice President Yousuke Matsuoka of the Japanese-owned South Manchuria Railway said : "Our policy, frankly, is peace at any price. . . . Japan will close the door to any Chinese army which seeks to carry on Civil War north of the Great Wall...
...most fitting that of the handful of papal knightly orders that of St. Gregory the Great go to Mr. Brady. Pope Gregory XVI (1765-1846) created the order in 1831 and put it under the patronage of that first and greater Gregory (c. 540-604)-to reward the civil and military virtues of the subjects of the Papal States. But now, when the Papal domain is only a patch of land at Rome, the knightly requirements have been loosed by the Popes and made applicable to all the adherents of their spiritual hegemony. Nicholas Frederic Brady, Grand Cross Knight...