Word: civilizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Outbreak of the Civil War", Professor Whitney, Harvard...
...Hypnotized Rabbit." From all this it must not be supposed that the causes of the present civil war are purely religious. There is also the very strong if not major element of personal rivalry?"dog eat dog" ?among Mexico's many men of the sword. It is of the very first significance that, last week, neither the government nor Chief Rebel Gilberto Valenzuela laid any great stress on such appeals to principle, credulity or reason as helped to win the Great War. Any fight in Mexico is, at bottom, just dogfight, though the triumph of General Calles would mean...
Died. Rear Admiral Yates Stirling (retired), 85, of Baltimore, Civil War veteran, father of Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jr., commander of the Yangtze patrol of the U. S. Asiatic fleet; in Baltimore...
...Passed a Senate Bill to increase Civil Service retirement annuities for some 400,000 U. S. workers...
...Alfonso Fors, head of the.judicial police, announced that a plot had been discovered to assassinate General Gerardo Machado y Morales, President of the Cuban Republic since 1925, and to plunge the country in civil warfare with the idea of bringing about U. S. intervention. A certain Dr. Alejandro Vergara Leonard was named head of the conspiracy, and he and nine followers were arrested and flung into the grey, 18th century Castillo del Principe...