Word: civilizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arthur Garfield Rays, prominent New York lawyer, will deliver an address at Harvard tomorrow when he speaks at the Liberal Club. 66 Winthrop Street, on the subject. "Civil Liberty in America." The lecture will be at 1.30 o'clock and will be open to all members of the University...
...Mexico, is engaged in putting down a revolution, and why should not Washington and London help? In so far as the U. S. State Department made any reply, it was intimated to correspondents that unless U. S. lives or property should be endangered by the newest Chinese civil war, the Hoover policy would be laisser faire...
Luckless merchants of Hankow were "assessed" (robbed) of $2,500,000 to be used by the Wuhan generals in carrying on their civil war. Before Marshal Chiang left Nanking he tapped the Nationalist treasury for $5,000,000. Prognostications were for a long-drawn war of skirmishes, possibly to be fought to a finish in the southern provinces near Canton, a region thus far comparatively unplundered by China's peripatetic militarists...
...common knowledge that Japan has financed and favored Marshal Chang, the captor of Chefoo, but it would be news indeed if the Imperial Government con- siders Chang already strong enough to see that Japanese interests and colonists in Shantung come to no harm during the present civil...
...President Hoover has no great fancy for women in public office. Nevertheless, appreciative of her excellent work in the past, he returned to Jessie Dell, a Georgia Democrat, her resignation as a U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, thus retaining her in office. He also sent back unaccepted the resignation of General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff...