Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country had hardly recovered from the threat of war incident to the despatch of the Panther by the German Government to Agadir. Internally the country was split by a virtual civil war as well as the usual bandit depredations. It was natural that the young Sultan should lean more and more on Marshal Lyautey, "the grand old man of Morocco," who was the French Resident General. It was largely because of their mutual confidence that France was able so completely to pacify the country that she was able to withdraw two-thirds of her troops during...
...Joffe was one of Soviet Russia's foremost diplomats and represented his country in many lands, the most notable, perhaps, being China, where he was able to prepare the way for Bolshevist influence in the civil war still raging...
First there was an oil lease. Then there was suspicion. Investigations followed suspicion. Suits, civil and criminal, followed investigation. Out of the civil suits came proven illegalities and the U. S. got back its "Teapot Dome" oil reserve in Natrona...
...defense to prove the incompetency of the court. It was urged that the country was not legally under martial law, it being unconstitutional to keep it in a state of siege when there was no danger of foreign invasion, and that, therefore, the trial should go to a civil court before a jury. M. Carapancea, military prosecuting attorney, pleaded the contrary case, and the court came to the conclusion that the government was within its rights in declaring martial...
...Annela Bailey, the prettier of the two women on the dismissed jury, unburdened herself: "Is it really a fact that the Supreme Court passed on a case exactly like this one, that it was a civil one, and found that a conspiracy did exist? Wouldn't we have looked foolish if we had given a verdict just the opposite of the Supreme Court's!... What do people like us know about such a case as this?" Mrs. Bailey said that Lawyer Martin W. Littleton of the defense looked "slick" to her, and "more like a teddy bear than...