Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only $70,000 by its owner's sworn statement. But the Government thought best to withhold this evidence until its rebuttal. There were other matters which the Government would have liked to introduce but could not, notably the U. S. Supreme Court's unanimous verdict in a civil suit, that Sinclair's lease was "shot through with corruption," and that Fall was "a faithless public officer." Lawyers Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts banged home the first part of their case, then rested until the defense should develop things further...
...Civil War and Intervention, 1918-1920," Professor Karpovich, Sever...
George Huntington Hartford, a "down-easter" born at Augusta, Me., went to Manhattan before the Civil War and there operated a modest hide and leather business from his store on Vesey street. A neighboring store keeper, one Gilman from Bridgeport, Conn., was in the spice and tea business, and in 1859 the first Hartford went to work for Gilman as store manager. Gilman soon withdrew from the business. He had a peculiarity that doubtless was most trying to Hartford. He feared death so terribly that he would endure near him no mirrors in which he might note the shriveling...
...Hartford's management the spice and tea business prospered and in 1864 he organized it as the Great American Tea Co. The idea of neighborhood stores came to him. Promptly he opened such stores in scattered parts of New York and Brooklyn and by the end of the Civil War he had several doing well...
...Civil War and Intervention, 1918-1920," Professor Karpovich, Sever...