Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed two bills designed to enable the Government to speed up action in criminal and civil suits against onetime Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall and others who had their fingers in the Teapot Dome. (Went to the President who signed them.) ¶ Cleared away its bulky business and adjourned simultaneously with the Senate, not to meet again until...
...Caillaux (his second wife) shot and killed Editor Gaston Calmette of Le Figaro. It was established that she acted to protect herself and her husband from the publication by Le Figaro of documents tending to demonstrate their mutual moral turpitude at an earlier period and his current civil dishonesty. Though infuriated mobs attempted to lynch them both in the streets, Mme. Caillaux escaped conviction. So abysmal was their disgrace that his few remaining influential friends rushed him out of France on a flimsily concocted "mission" to South America...
...carpet-bag" was a traveling bag usually made of carpeting. "Carpet-bagger" came to be applied to fly-by-night adventurers who appeared in the South after the Civil War and set themselves up without any material baggage or backing to exploit the community...
Aeronautics. Three bills were passed-growing in large measure out of the to-do over aviation started by Colonel William Mitchell last fall-one gave the Department of Commerce supervision over civil aviation, the other two provided five year building programs for the air arm of Army and Navy. The Departments of Commerce, War, Navy will each have an Assistant Secretary in charge of aviation...
Early Bostonian: [There is] "a story told by Carl Schurz, who, during the American Civil War, on asking a sentry guarding his tent why he had not presented arms to a General who had just left it, received the answer: 'Why, sir, that General was never introduced...