Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conservative Cabinet: "The Diehards? have jumped on the box seat of the Conservative coach and are whipping the team to the devil. The Cabinet's introduction of the trade union bill [TIME, Feb. 21, 28] which proposes to make a sympathetic strike illegal, virtually forbids picketing and isolates the civil service from the general labor movement, is the act of a Government riding for a fall...
Atop the bubbling scum of Chinese civil war, events crystallized and clarified remarkably last week, standing forth sharp and definite: C The U. S., Britain, Japan, France and Italy stood together on their Chinese policy for the first time in many months and all transmitted to the Chinese Nationalist Government at Hankow identical demands for reparations in connection with the incident at Nanking (TIME, April 4), when Chinese killed several Occidentals but were quelled by a U. S. British bombardment...
...chances of the defendants bringing suit against the individual policemen is very slight but if they decided on doing this after the close of the present trial they could file either a criminal or civil suit...
Married. George W. Dodge, 83, President of the First National Bank of Shinglehouse, Pa.; to Mrs. Jane F. Swallow, 81, Civil War nurse; in New York City. When paying for the wedding license the bridegroom produced a $20 bill, chuckled, said: "Uncle Sam makes these, but they're no good until I sign them,"* pointed to his signature as President of the Shinglehouse bank. After the ceremony he said: "If you could express how I feel, it would not look well in print-I feel bully...
...Famed armored ship, invented by Captain John Ericsson, with a low freeboard and unique revolving gun-turret, used in the Civil War, by the Union to checkmate the ironclad Southern Merrimac...