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Word: civilizer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lehlbach of New Jersey, chairman of the Civil Service Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Last of the 70th | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

Charles Manly Stedman of North Carolina-only Civil War veteran in House, 87 years old. Was a major in Lee's army, wounded three times. Surrendered at Appomattox. Snow-white hair and beard, stooped shoulders, almost blind, a fine face. The House simply adores him. He rarely speaks. He is a small man in stature. A secretary conducts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Last of the 70th | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

Shawls were soon supplanted by army blankets-lucrative civil war contracts Fisk secured for his Boston firm. And before long he was buying cotton at 12? a pound in the South, selling it at $2 in the North. Some days he bought $800,000 worth, only to lose it (well insured) on the Mason Dixon line. One day, pursued by a Rebel patrol, he tossed them his wallet stuffed with $300,000, and made off with his more precious life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Another Black Bag | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...Political Pressure and Civil Service", Elliot 11, Goodwin, Sever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/23/1928 | See Source »

...square miles of the Philippine Islands with a population of nearly 11,500,000 are governed by the U. S. through a triumvirate of officials. First in order is the Governor General, civil administrator; second is the military headquarters commander; third is the military field commander. To the last-named post President Coolidge last week appointed Major General Paul Bernard Malone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Romantic Malone | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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