Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might almost describe the progress of civilization as consisting in this gradual enlargement of the peace group from the family to the community, to the State, to the Nation, to the World. Only the last step has not yet been fully taken and cannot be, until the United States cooperates. When the step is fully taken, when the whole world is organized for peace, when the World Court is as authoritative as our Supreme Court, we shall have abolished war as an institution wholly and forever. Each previous step of enlarging the peace group has left something outside and, therefore...
...Texas impeached Governor James Edward Ferguson, removed him from office, and deprived him of his civil right: (the right to hold office, etc.). But in 1924 he came back by a combination of cleverness and good fortune. He put up his wife to run for Governor. She ran second in the first Democratic primary. In the second Democratic primary Texas had the choice between her and the man who ran first?who was supported by the Ku Klux Klan. Texas, intent on repudiating the Klan, chose Mrs. Ferguson to be the Democratic nominee for Governor. In the election she beat...
...from obscurity to do some formal act of governing, but by and large the former Governor, who holds no office, manages things at the Capitol. One of the first things done was to get a bill through the Legislature (TIME, Feb. 28, WOMEN) restoring to the former Governor the civil rights taken from him by impeachment...
Orville Wright. As Mr. Wright came before the Board he was greeted by Chairman Morrow with the remark: "Here is the man who is responsible for all this problem." He urged in his brief testimony that the Government aid civil aviation especially by supplying landing fields, lights, weather reports and other aids to flying. He did not favor Mr. Madden's proposal that the Army and Navy give up their experimental work...
Meanwhile Americans whose memories are long, recall that General Weyler was once rather more than notorious in American eyes. As a Spanish military observer, he watched quietly enough the campaigns of General Sheridan during the Civil War. But as the Spanish representative in Cuba (1896-7), he repressed the Cuban struggle for independence with such atrocious severity that his régime was responsible for the Spanish-American War. In those days patriotic Americans reviled him as a "butcher" and a "thief." He was said to have ordered the shooting of countless Cubans out of hand. And at the same...