Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anti-Salooners, these lobbyists were white-collar workers in the Government?meek, long-suffering driven to desperation (they said) by "genteel poverty " They told stories of death by starvation, of "coffin and graveyard clubs, of collections for funerals?by-products of life on $1,200 per year. The House Civil Service Committee, to which they protestified was considering, among other pay raises the establishment of $1,500 as a minimum wage for any Federal fulltime job This increase the marchers favored. But one man, Clerk Edwin Evans of the General Accounting Office, cried out: "I am opposed . . . though I stand...
...There are two kinds of war. . . . There are international and civil wars, and of these the civil is the more horrible. ... It is a fair question to ask whether the Soviet Government sets its face against civil war as resolutely as against international war. . . . For years past the whole basis for the Soviet world policy has been to produce armed insurrection amounting to civil war in every country where they can exercise influence...
They were married in a hurry, in a civil ceremony performed by a Catholic priest who had known Miss Henry since she first went to Monterey, Calif., and rode horseback with flying pigtails. They had to hurry because Engineer Hoover was sailing again from California for his second big job, to advise the young Emperor of China about his ancestral mines and newfangled railroads...
...mossy, domed Cathedral at Esztergom-on-Danube wound a solemn, resplendent procession of robed prelates and civil functionaries heavy with chains of office...
After the Civil War he was appointed Indian Agent. But by that time he had lost his health; was broke and lonely. He died before...