Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United Spanish War Veterans at Detroit. You seemed to see something in us which the average man in the U. S. has missed for the past years. . . . The men you saw at Detroit had an average term of service of 16 months, compared with eleven for the Civil War and nine for the World War. A great many of them were regulars, and also large numbers were not in the Spanish War proper, being too young to successfully lie about their age in '98, but did get in the Army, Navy or "Volunteer Regulars" in 1899 or some time...
...ended the civil proceedings of the U. S. Navy Department against Oilman Edward L. Doheny to recover values and royalties on oil and gas sold by Mr. Doheny's companies from the Elk Hills, Calif., Naval oil reserves, which were improperly leased to the Doheny interests by onetime (1921- 23) Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall. Last week's final payments swelled the sum which the U. S. recovered from the Doheny companies, together with its oil lands, to a total of $24,237,341.05. The report of the receivership which has been managing Elk Hills since 1924 showed...
...Government's other civil suit arising out of the oil scandals, against Oilman Harry F. Sinclair who leased the Teapot Dome (Wyo.) reserve, is still before the U. S. Supreme Court...
...last week the U. S. started yet another civil suit against Mr. Doheny, to break three leases he holds on strips of oil land adjacent to the Elk Hills reserve...
September 29. William Ernest Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity...