Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Before eight, one morning, secret service men leapt from the path of an automobile that whizzed up the driveway. Secretary of Commerce Hoover got out; conferred hastily with the President on farm relief; offered plans (which were approved) for extensive Governmental promotion of civil aeronautics under the recent air legislation; whizzed down the driveway, took a train to California, presumably to aid his friend Senator Shortridge, whose renomination Senator Hiram Johnson is opposing...
...Fonck that he must learn early about fleet machines, for at 13 he began to study mechanical engineering and soon after to drive racing cars. In 1913, aged 18, it took him but two months to earn his pilot's certificate. Since the War he has stayed in civil aviation continuously-except for the eight-day honorary term as mayor of Saulcy-sur-Meurthe, his birthplace in the Vosges. The Motives. Captain Fonck came to the U. S. last year for the Pulitzer air races. Hearing that Engineer Igor Sikorsky was building monster trimotored planes on Long Island...
Many people honestly believe that one Ulysses Simpson Grant was general of the Federal forces in the Civil War; that he said, "I purpose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer"; that he drank plenty of hard liquor; that he was later President of the U. S. They are wrong. No such person ever did any of these things...
...cost of kings? The announcement last week that the civil list- of King Alexander I of Jugoslovia has just been raised to the equivalent of $1,000,000 per annum prompted intensive scanning of the civil lists of Europe's principal sovereigns...
...Vatican upon what forces he should loose against Plutarco Elias Calles, President of Mexico, arch foe and suppressor of non-Mexican-born clericals of every creed (TIME, August 2, et ante). His Holiness may have reflected that the Roman Catholic Church has withstood down the ages onslaughts from the civil power of almost every predominantly Catholic state. When Vittorio Emanuele II contracted the temporal sway of the Pope within the Holy See (1870) he but served to enhance the spiritual prestige of the Papacy. Despite the Kulturkampf the Catholic party is still one. of the most potent in Germany. Frenchmen...