Word: civilizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Problems of Civil Service Administration", Professor Sly, Sever...
...administration heavily last week in a speech in Manhattan on its selection of Lawyers Roberts and Pomerene to conduct some of the cases against Fall and Sinclair. The Pound point was that while the Messrs. Roberts and Pomerene are able enough as chancery lawyers and did well in the civil suits against Sinclair, they are no great shakes as criminal lawyers. From the criminal charges against them Sinclair and Fall have after long delays and many a slip comfortably escaped so far. Said Dean Pound: "Did Sinclair keep the same lawyers in the criminal case that he had employed...
...History of Civil Service Reform", Professor Sly, Sever...
Finally Mr. Baldwin rounded out an unusually philosophical week by addressing a banquet in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Spectator, famed British weekly review. Harking back to the U. S. Civil War, Orator Baldwin recalled that in 1863 the Spectator alluded to: "Mr. Lincoln's modest and somewhat vulgar but respectable statesmanship...
...formal opening in 1839, he might have learned that Founder Eugene Grasselli's family had been chemists for 400 years, since first they made gunpowder and perfume in Torno, Italy. He could not have learned, however, that the company would move to Cleveland after the Civil War. and would there prosper mightily producing fertilizers, zinc metal, zinc dust, explosives, aspirin, until finally, under Grandson Thomas Saxton Grasselli, it would have 22 factories and assets...