Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vexer Miller, aged 30, had been clerk in the office of Assistant Secretary of State J. Butler Wright. Last week, under pressure, he confessed to having "illicitly acquired the advance proof" of the foreign service examination conducted by the Civil Service Commission on Jan. 11, and to having "copied therefrom the full approved text." The 200 young men had taken the examination...
...been given. The charities had actually received the money. Aside from "office expenses," not a penny had the charming young man and his friend kept of some $500,000 which, in silver and jewelry, they had stolen from their peers, given away to the poor. Both were capable civil engineers. Both had money of their own. They were placed in a ward for observation...
Against his wits were pitted those of four Cantonese Nationalists whose names loomed internationally last week from the present headquarters at Hankow: 1) T. V. Soong, 33, a graduate of the Harvard School of Business Administration, later employed by the International Banking Corp. at Manhattan, now the outstanding civil leader at Hankow, partly because he is the brother-in-law of the late founder of the Nationalist movement, famed Dr. Sun Yatsen. He and his sister, the pretty widow, serve to remind soldiers and coolies of the great revolutionary name. 2) Eugene Chen, Foreign Secretary of the Nationalist Government...
Actual fighting between the Sacasa (Liberal) and Diaz (Conservative) forces continued in the interior. Since false reports of success were sent out on both sides, the true state of the civil war remained obscure, but a total of at least 500 combatant Nicaraguans were killed last week...
...French economist Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817), monarchist, who in 1799 emigrated to the U. S., where his son, Eleuthere Irenee, founded the since famed family powder factory and wealth. Henry Algernon du Pont, always interested in the Army, was as Lieutenant Colonel in the Civil War awarded Congressional Medal "for extraordinary gallantry"; became (1877) President of Wilmington and Northern Railway; withdrew 20 years later from business to politics and farming...