Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...title created for "but never accepted by George Washington, conferred afterwards upon only four officers: Grant, Sherman, Sheridan (Civil War), Pershing. Although he retired in 1924, John J. Pershing is still on the active list as General of the Armies, has the words lettered over his sumptuous, seldom-used office in the State Department...
...loss of first-line combat planes in the first months of fighting is expected by the U. S. Air Corps if ever its new armada flies to war.* Such appalling losses put a premium upon a vast reserve of pilots. Last week the non-military Civil Aeronautics Authority took a long step to increase that reserve: it certified 220 U. S. colleges and universities for participation in its pilot-training program, prepared to name still more to share $5,675,000 voted by Congress for schooling 11,000 new fliers this year...
Underlying all these explanations, however, was the conviction that the Poles were magnificent fighters. If Sheridan's victorious armies at the end of the Civil War had driven into French-dominated Mexico, reached Mexico City, then been driven smack back to Denver, the legend of Mexican fighting strength might have been as firmly rooted in U. S. life as the legend of peppery Poles was ingrained in Russian thought. That was one of the reasons why, last week, Russians had a lot of trouble explaining the German advance and their own defeat...
Last week the Keeley Institute celebrated its 60th anniversary. Before a small crowd of enthusiastic but sober alumni, Director James Henry Oughton Jr. unveiled a bronze plaque of Founder Leslie E. Keeley, a Civil War surgeon who announced his cure in 1879. With his famed slogan, "Drunkenness is a disease and I can cure it," and his "secret" injections of gold chloride, Dr. Keeley amassed a fortune of over $1,000,000. During the 'gos, Keeley clubs flourished all over the U. S., proud Keeley alumni sported shiny gold buttons, preached excitingly confessional sermons to female temperance societies...
Lenin during the Civil War, but Lenin and Trotsky together were too smart for him. In Author Souvarine's sober account of these years following the revolution, the predicament of Lenin stands out painfully: plunged by his own victory into a chaos which compelled him to backtrack step by step on the Socialist program, sick, knowing his closest henchmen to be politically imprudent, like Trotsky, or unscrupulous, like Stalin. After his death it took Stalin just two years to make himself impregnable...