Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long since a greybeard, he retains in debate the vigor and combative strength of youth. Last week, in his secondary role of Finance Minister, M. Poincaré was defending his latest budget against the tacking on of a ruinously costly amendment to increase the salaries of all civil servants retroactively from August, 1926. Because civil employes are excessively numerous and vote-potent in France, many of the Deputies (reputedly a majority) felt that they dared not vote against the measure last week, fearing to displease their constituents. As they listened to M. Poincare, he wooed and persuaded them against their...
...Hills half of the scandal. By a unanimous decision of the U. S. Supreme Court (Feb. 28, 1927) the Doheny lease on the Elk Hills naval oil reserve was declared invalid and the property was restored to the U. S. Government. This decision settled the Government's civil suit to recover the lands leased by Mr. Fall. Meanwhile, on Dec. 16, 1926, the Government's criminal prosecution of Messrs. Fall and Doheny had failed when a jury in the District of Columbia Supreme Court aquitted the accused...
...only the Teapot Dome portion of the oil investigation remained unsettled. The Government's civil suit to recover the property is still pending before the U. S. Supreme Court. The Government's criminal suit against Messrs. Fall and Sinclair is to be tried on Oct. 17 in the District of Columbia Supreme Court. When these two decisions should be reached, it appeared that the Oil Scandals would then become definitely a matter of history...
...life; the Hills-Dome half-brothers became paired again. For though Messrs. Fall and Doheny had been acquitted on a charge of conspiracy, there still remained against them indictments for bribery. Fall-Doheny attorneys had attacked the validity of these indictments after the U. S. Supreme Court's civil suit decision that the transfer of the Elk Hills lease from the Navy Department to the Department of the Interior (1921) had been illegal. The lawyers claimed that, assuming that this transfer was illegal, Mr. Fall had no authority to deal with Mr. Doheny on the leasing question...
...first volume, "The Agricultural Era," carries the story to the pre-Civil War period, from which "The Industrial Era" continues it to the present. The second volume is perhaps the more important, dealing with a less colorful period but one through which fewer able historians have ventured. Authors Beard write in what has been regarded as the proper manner for historians since Tacitus published his Annals, with taciturn detachment, thoughtful compactness, dignity...