Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a board of inquiry report charged Captain Karns and Lieutenant Commander Dupree J. Friedell with negligence, ordered court-martial proceedings to be immediately instituted against them. Clark Cottrell, Navy Yard pilot, was guiding the Colorado when it grounded, but is a civil employe, not under Navy jurisdiction...
Later in the week, Governor Small agreed to pay the State of Illinois $650,000 in settlement of a certain civil suit against him. In return for this payment, he was absolved from blame in connection with the money involved in the suit...
...that mechanical conflict from being without its heroes. The only officer in the German Navy who had served under sail, he was chosen to command a raider which, disguised as a neutral schooner, was to break through the Allied blockade. The Sea Eagle, like the Confederate cruisers during the Civil War, carried the flag of a beleagured nation around the seas; like them, she destroyed enemy commerce while guarding the safety of each crew. When she was wrecked at last upon a South Sea island her commander surrendered rainer than shoot his way to safety through a civilian population...
Miss Faith Williams, younger daughter of the only U. S. citizen to be murdered by a Chinese during the present Chinese civil war (TIME, April 4), spoke to Manhattan reporters last week about her father, Dr. John E. Williams, who was Vice Chancellor of Nanking University at the time when he was shot in cold blood by a Chinese soldier intent on possessing Dr. Williams' watch...
Percival Christopher Wren (British author of Beau Geste, Beau Sabreur, etc.) was co-respondent in a divorce suit won by Cyril Graham Smith, civil engineer stationed at Poona, India, from Mrs. Smith, in London...