Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Mrs. Georgia Wade Mc-Clellan, 86, who sat on the platform during Lincoln's Gettysburg address; at Carroll, la. On her deathbed, imagining herself again a Civil War nurse, she said: "There's a soldier boy in there [the next room] who wants a letter written to his mother. He's wounded so badly he'll never live. I do wish you'd write...
About 1820, becoming a member of the stock exchange meant an initiation fee of $25. By the end of the Civil War the initiation was $3,000. By 1869 membership was bought at the market price of a seat (there were 1,060 in all). The first year this went into effect the price of seats jumped from $3,000 to $7,500. In 1879 the number of seats was raised to 1,100, as at present. Since then there has been only the vast increase in security values and public participation to account for the rise in seat prices...
Evacuation. The Japanese Government, feeling that the risks of disorders in Shantung Province had been removed by the shifting of the Chinese civil war front to the Yangtze Valley, ordered its troops to evacuate Tsinan and Tsingtao in that province...
This "guilt" had attached itself to Mr. McAndrew during a legal action against the school board the past summer. A group of 288 teacher-clerks had sought an injunction to prevent the school board from replacing them with civil service (political) appointees. In court, the teacher-clerks had sent for Mr. McAndrew to explain to the judge the nature of their duties. Mr. McAndrew had complied, saying, yes, the duties of teacher-clerks are predominantly educational. They assist the school principals in supervising classroom work; they interview parents, help with home work, aid discipline and even, when needed, teach classes...
...Pasha is an old honorary Turkish title given to officers of high rank, civil and military governors...