Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peacetime activi- ties, or what it is thought may ultimately be one large branch of them, under military control or on a military basis would be to make the same mistake which, properly or improperly, the world believes Prussia to have made in the last generation. The union of civil and military air activities would breed distrust in every region to which our tension." commercial aviation sought extension...
...minds of many people. It is encouraged, supervised and regulated by the War Department. The purpose is to make soldiers. It is not training in citizenship, or any vague and ill-defined training of a general military nature. The official object is to provide systematic military training at civil educational institutions for the purpose of qualifying selected students of such institutions for appointment as reserve officers in the military forces of the United States...
...idea of universal compulsory training but upon the present near-substitute it has not spoken. Congress, under the emotion of a great European war, put into effect the National Defense Act, and in so doing authorized the President of the United States to introduce military training into civil educational institutions; the War Department is now showing what this may mean, but the general public has hardly known what was going...
Within the Abbey, the Queens of England, Norway and Spain were waiting together with an innumerable assembly of the nobility of Europe, and such English civil dignitaries as Premier Baldwin and his Cabinet. The U. S. Ambassador and Mrs. Houghton were present amid a brilliant assembly of the various diplomatic corps...
Critics opined that the installation of a U. S. Mayor at Callao is in line with President Leguía's known policy of favoring U. S. citizens in matters civil and local. At the same time it was recalled that he has contended bitterly for every last square inch of Tacna-Arica which can be allocated to Peru under President Coolidge's award (TIME, April...