Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...emetic and tonic. At last the worm, which has been turning for a long time, has accomplished the convolution. The feeling is evident in print, in the new book written by Darrow, and in the belliger out attitude of nearly all the important papers and magazines. The Civil Liberty unions have been quietly accomplishing much in the courts, but the sore will probably come to a head in the person of Governor Smith...
...President Connolly decided that the sewer construction that had to be done in Queens was "the biggest job in the country." He told the civil service commissioners that he wanted "a man having peculiar knowledge of sewer construction" to boss the job. He said he had found just such a man in James Rice, a graduate of English Army schools, who had (according to Mr. Connolly) supervised more than $100,000,000 worth of sewer and road construction in the Far East and whose advice was constantly being sought by U. S. Sewer contractors...
Eastern Lands. The New Year peace of Europe extended, last week, very generally across Asia except in China. Even there, however, the incessant civil wars have smouldered down to a truce of exhaustion. The great hinterlands of Mongolia and Tibet continue slumbrous under the rule of local chieftains and priestly cults whose sovereignty is ill defined. Even the pugnacious Shah of Persia, Reza Khan Pahlevi, is at peace. So calm is neighboring Afghanistan that the Amir, Amanullah Khan, has left his realm to shortly begin a pleasure tour through Europe. Finally, crossing over from Asia to Africa, the various tribesmen...
...February?when it is observed with fireworks. Thus the thoughts of the docile, unoffensive people of China were not lightened by holiday fripperies, last week, but they were darkened and depressed by a grim certainty: it is at this season that Chinese leaders sow the seeds of those many civil wars which burst throughout China each summer as surely as snapdragons...
Chiang Looms. Marshal Chiang Kaishek, a bantam weight, trim-figured "Nationalist," who disdains pomp and affects a simple khaki uniform, loomed, last week, as likely to be first in the field of springtime civil war. His personal headquarters are at the great seaport Shanghai; but he has recently been chosen the civil and military head of the "Nationalist Government of China," a group of politicians and generals with headquarters at Nanking, nearby. Last week this group were preparing to hold, early in January, a plenary session of the Nationalist party congress?to concoct war plans. Since there was danger, however...