Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Young Turks simply cannot afford plural wives, and so they are generally content with their new Civil Code, based on the Civil Code of Switzerland and absolutely forbidding polygamy...
...Turkish Civil Service still remains lamentably corrupt; but the Departments of Justice and Education have been so improved as to be unrecognizable...
...Swiss-type Civil Code is supplemented by a new German-type Commercial Code; and a Penal Code based on that of Italy has been promulgated. The immense and revolutionary project of scrapping outworn Turkish law (based on the Koran) and substituting Western statutes thus stands today, accomplished...
...182Many onetime schools of religious instruction have been turned into civil primary schools and lycees, in some of which women are teachers...
Since the Chinese civil war has degenerated into national anarchy during the past twelvemonth (TIME, Feb. 1, 1926 et seq.) the various Chinese diplomats who are accredited as Ministers to the Western powers are becoming genuinely puzzled as to what "Government of China" they represent...