Word: civilizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Civil Liberties Union, New York...
...Another bill "pocket vetoed" last week was a $3,500,000 appropriation for Federal fish farms. . . . Another, a bill by Representative Fish of New York providing preferment for War veterans in Civil Service appointments...
...After "Light Horse Harry" Lee, Revolutionary cavalry general, father of Civil War General Robert E. Lee and no relation to Cadet Wilson...
Second, the Japanese Government is resolved that the Chinese Civil War shall not spread still further northward from Peking into Manchuria, now teeming with little brown colonists from the neighboring Islands of Japan. Therefore the Japanese General Staff, although exceedingly friendly to Chang Tso-lin, recently gave warning (TIME, May 28) that neither he nor any other Chinese would be permitted to enter Manchuria for purposes of active warfare...
...Mail service which had caused the deaths of numerous pilots were remedied after a Scripps reporter had investigated and his chiefs had acted. Last week Scripps-Howard set out upon a bold, bolder, boldest crusade: trying to persuade the U. S. to pay the Civil War Debt to British investor: which was incurred and then repudiated by eight onetime Confederate States...