Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...content with the stirring up of civil tumult, Ex-Registrar Goodwin has taken to the larger field of international diplomacy. The unfortunate situation created by Secretary MacDonald's reference to squirrels and Mexican generals in his statement about Mr. Goodwin is still more entangled by the latter's course. It was bad enough for the Commonwealth to be at sword's points with one foreign power; now Mr. Goodwin would bring Sweden into the fray, and his pointed allusion to the Sacco-Vanzetti commission of last summer may annoy the irritable Signor Mussolini and cause Italy to be arrayed among...
Birthday for Oliver Wendell Holmes, born March 8, 1841, thrice wounded in the Civil War, for a quarter-century one of the eight Associate Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court. Thanking a friend for felicitations, he said, "Mine is just an old story told eighty-six times and this year for the eighty-seventh time." Despite a cold which confined him to his home in Washington, he spent his birthday working on the cases assigned him by Chief Justice William Howard Taft. "I should die if I quit work," he is said to say at intervals...
...piece of history, "Kit Carson" is also important. The author shows clearly the part played by Carson in opening up the West, his invaluable aid to Colonel Freemont, his part in the Civil War. The economic changes which affected our hero are also dealt with briefly, and the author permits himself some very pungent comments on the U. S. Army and the general misconduct of Western affairs on the part of the Eastern authorities...
...United States Civil Service Commission has announced four competitive examinations open to University students. Applications for these positions must be on file with the Civil Service Commission at Washington not later than April 14. The examinations are to till vacancies in the Departmental Service, including the Bureau of Standards, and in positions requiring similar qualifications...
...mont went to California to look after his troublesome Mariposa properties, also made friends with Bret Harte who called Jessie a "fairy godmother." Then Lincoln was elected President and Civil War smouldered. Frémont became Commander of the Department of the West with headquarters in St. Louis. Missouri was a bed of sectional emotions; Frémont was a hot-headed commander; there were a "Hundred Days" of trouble. Lincoln removed him after he had declared martial law and prematurely emancipated the slaves in Missouri. He was given another chance as general in Virginia, but failed and fell...