Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There was then delay, during which the whole affair slumbered, only to be brought into the limelight again by the Senate Investigating Committee. A civil case was first tried, deciding that the lease of the Elk, Hills Reservation should be cancelled due to fraud. The case was taken to the Circuit Court of Appeals, which reversed the decision, and the matter is now appendine in the Supreme Court. Later the courts refused to cancel the Teapot Dome lease...
...report will urge, in effect, the striking of a bargain with the Philippines which will make them more restive but no more independent. Probable Filipino advantages to be recommended are: 1) Transfer of U. S. supervision from the War Department to a special bureau in one of the civil departments; 2) Replacement of Governor General Leonard Wood's "Cavalry Cabinet" of military advisers by U. S. civilian departmental experts; 3) Internal self-government with an elective Filipino Governor General to be allowed within a decade, provided the Filipinos behave themselves in the meantime...
...compilation of industrial literature was made by the late Samuel Morse Felton '34, president of the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad and a brother of C. C. Felton '27, a former president of Harvard. Samuel Felton was a national figure, during the Civil War and through his acquaintance with President Lincoln and his services to the government was enabled to amass documents, books, and pamphlets of great value to the student of early American industrial development...
...assembled last week in extraordinary session. The galleries and boxes twittered and sparkled with the elect of Rome, Fascist patricians who had come to cheer Il Duce as he put through the Chamber his Defense Decrees (TIME, Nov. 15) punishing with death attempts upon his life, and virtually abrogating civil liberty in Italy...
...This statement makes clear the fact that the people in the present Civil War realize the issues they are fighting for and are eager to re-establish national unity. Whatever the immediate result of the struggle, there remains the fact that the Nationalist movement has awakened the political consciousness of an important part of this mighty nation of 400,000,000 people...