Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States Navy will be stationed at the Engineering School next year as successor to the men who are just finishing their year of work here. The men chosen are graduates of Annapolis who have shown especial ability and are given an additional course of training at civil institution...
...causes a President more calculation than thought. Important vetoes have grave political bearing. The power is so nearly absolute. Not more than 50 vetoes have been overridden in the U. S. history. Fifteen of them were President Johnson's (1865-69), and he was working on a Reconstruction (Post-Civil-War) program opposite to that desired by Congress...
President Cleveland vetoed (often by the "pocket" method?letting bills go when Congress was about to adjourn*) 304 bills, mostly Civil War pensions. Historian James Bryce commented: "By killing more bills than all his predecessors put together had done, Mr. Cleveland is supposed to have improved the prospects of his reelection. . . . The nation . . . has good grounds for distrusting Congress...
Meanwhile Japan continued to maintain several potent armed forces in China, to protect her nationals in the provinces of Shantung, and Manchuria and in Peking (Chihli Province) (TIME, April 30). Therefore, in all probability the men who knew most authoritatively last week, which way the tide of Chinese Civil War will turn were the officers comprising the Japanese Imperial General Staff...
Died. Thomas Henry ("Old Tom") Tibbles, 87, famed Civil War fighter, circuit rider and onetime (1904) candidate for the vice presidency of the U. S.; at Omaha, Neb. Hanged before he was 16 by members of Raider Quantrill's band, he was cut down by friends, lived to fight with John Brown, to edit the Omaha World-Herald, to marry three wives, one of them Princess Bright Eyes, original of Longfellow's Minnehaha...