Word: civilizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...service, for, like Secretary Adams, Mr. Jahncke is a potent amateur sailor, commodore of the Southern Yacht Club of New Orleans, a member of the New York Yacht Club. In technical qualification for his post he operates one of the largest dry docks in the South; he is a civil and mechanical engineer, a naval architect. He directs large Louisiana banks, is a member of the International Olympic Games Committee. Mr. Jahncke's wife is a granddaughter of Edward M. Stanton, the Lincoln Secretary...
Resignations. Alive to the need for reorganizing the Government, President Hoover touched the centre of resistance to this long-delayed program when he called last week for the resignations of all executive officeholders from sub-Cabinet members down to the unchanging, merit-system Civil Service. Obscure bureau chiefs, chief clerks, directors of their deputies, holders of jobs which are virtually permanent so long as their party stays in power, these underlings have exercised great influence over Cabinet officers in inducing them to block organization plans. But a bureaucrat ceases to be a bureaucrat once his resignation is in the President...
...rtha; 5) from the Swedish Government, a replica of King Gustaf V's own golden soup tureen; 6) from the Norwegian Government, a silver punch bowl; 7) from the Norwegian Storting a pair of silver candlesticks and probably an increase in Crown Prince Olaf's yearly civil list from $13,000 to $26,000, though the enabling legislation had not passed last week...
...Octoroon. Hissing the villain and shouting directions to the hero came back into vogue with the revival of After Dark a few months ago, at Christopher Morley's Theatre in Hoboken (see above). This is another by the author of After Dark. Dragged from its pre-war (Civil) dust and presented on Broadway, its thunderous plot is played "straight" by a capable cast. For those who can get enjoyment out of making fun of abandoned sentimentalities, it provides a pleasant evening...
When the Rev. Benjamin C. Dahnes of Mountain Home, Pa., married divorced 5?-&-10? Tycoon Sebastian Spering Kresge to Mrs. Clara K. Swaine last December, he violated no civil law. However, in the Methodist Episcopal Church is a law which says that no minister may marry a person who has been the "guilty party'' in a divorce suit. In his last divorce suit Mr. Kresge was judged a "guilty party" and did not contest the judgment. Therefore, the Rev. Benjamin Dahnes did violate a law of his Church...