Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pocket veto" (failure to act on a bill ten days after receiving it, Congress having ad-journed), the President killed a bill to increase the pensions of Civil War widows, over 75 years of age, from $30 to $40 a month...
Meanwhile, the Government's civil suit to recover the Teapot Dome oil reserves is now pending before the U. S. Supreme Court, while the criminal suit charging Messrs. Sinclair and Fall with fraud is floundering through vexing preliminaries in a lower court...
...Economic Unrest and Political Morals following the Civil War", Professor Schlesinger, New Lecture Hall, History...
...fought in the Civil War, retiring as a Major. Professor Sargent received numerous awards for his work and was the author of many books on the study of botanical subjects, on which he was considered the leading authority...
...perfect combination. The Hon. Mr. Comer had been everything an Alabaman should have been-Civil War cadet, large-scale farmer, large investor in manufactories, wholesale merchant, citizen with public spirit enough to enter politics and fight for reforms himself. Railway rates had been the issue of his political career. Water-transportation for inland Alabama industry was the end to which he now gave his name and money, until the end was won. Not for a "handsome profit" Alabamans said, had the Hon. Mr. Comer and Publisher Thompson used the Age-Herald, but as an instrument to develop their state which...