Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Ltd. and was raised to the peerage. When a British M.P. last year accused the Government-backed Imperial Airways of being "the laughing stock of the world," Lord Cadman was named as a disinterested layman to head a committee of inquiry into all civil aviation...
INTO the hands of a public already steeped in Civil War fiction comes a truly worthy picture of the South during and immediately after the war. The Unvanquished presents the story of a family wrapped up in the events and consequences of every turn of the struggle, embodying the very essence of the Southern viewpoint. But there are no pictures of the battles and bloodshed, of the marches of destruction made by the Northern armies. These have already been told all too often. Instead, William Faulkner gives the psychological reactions these events had on the home life of a typical...
...lean Arthur Ernest Morgan is a top-flight civil engineer, an expert on flood control, a famed progressive educator, and a man of stern and often inflexible ideas. Plain, stringy Harcourt A. Morgan is a farmer and entomologist who came to TVA from the Presidency of the University of Tennessee, and knows more about Tennessee Valley farmers than anyone in the Authority. David Eli Lilienthal is a young lawyer, a former associate of Donald Richberg, with a background of fighting Wisconsin utility companies as a member of the La Follettes' Public Service Commission. The Great TVA Schism, boiled down...
...their machinations against Lenin and are implicated in the infliction of a bullet wound upon the founder of the Soviet Union in 1919 which contributed to his death in 1924. Trotsky was a spy in the pay of Germany from 1921 on, notwithstanding that he had just won the civil war for the Reds and continued until 1925 as Commissar of the Red Army, which he created. In more recent times Yagoda, acting under orders from Trotsky, caused three of Russia's most eminent physicians and scientists to murder outright or hasten the deaths of 1) famed Writer Maxim...
Ignatius Donnelly was known in his own day as the foremost exponent of the Baconian theory (that Bacon wrote Shakespeare). Author of an emphatic volume that traced civilization's origins to a vanished continent (Atlantis: The Antediluvian World), Donnelly would have been a queer bird in any aviary. But he seemed still queerer against his own hard-working background of Niniger, Minn., and his writings were all the more exceptional in view of his political career. Lieutenant governor of Minnesota when he was 28, Donnelly was a Republican Congressman at 32, held that post throughout the Civil...