Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more was alleged by the investigating Civil Service Commission than that the officials implicated had speculated privately in French Francs. The Commission even went so far as to deny positively that Foreign Office information had been made the basis of these speculations. What appeared to be the culprits' real crime was that they had transgressed the unwritten code of honor & respectability of the Civil Service. Mr. Gregory, with a salary of ?1,200 per year had mysteriously transgressed to the extent of making speculative moves in the aggregate amount of ?1,000,000. Sir Miles Lampson, the Minister...
...might have been U. S. President during the Civil War, or built a fortune as big as the Rockefellers' or outshone Sam Houston, Dewey and Lindbergh as heroes. But ask the man-on-the-street today who John Charles Frémont was, and the answer will probably be: "The name sounds familiar, but I can't quite place...
...party, supported by the leading newspapers and liberals of the North. Conservative northerners feared to have so impetuous a man in the White House when southern Democrats were shouting: "Tell me, if the hoisting of the Black Republican flag . . . by a Frenchman's bastard, while the arms of civil war are already clashing [in Kansas], is not to be deemed an overt act and declaration of war?" So, placid Fillmore of the Whig party took enough votes away from Frémont to give the election to portly, blundering Buchanan of the Democrats...
...political principle, independent of his own existence, Ritchie has identified himself. This principle, for which Ritchie is ready to do battle at any season of the year, is the principle of State rights. It is not his hope or his expectation to argue again an issue settled by the Civil War. "The particular application of the doctrine of State rights which culminated in the Civil War bears the label of a lost cause," he believes. No one now challenges the supremacy of the Federal Government or denies the power of Congress "to reach out into the States and influence...
Before the Civil War, says Ritchie, "the struggle of the States was for State supremacy over Federal power in the Federal domain. Now it is for State existence against Federal transgression in the State domain." There is no longer any danger of State supremacy, but there is a very real danger of State suffocation...