Word: civilizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pope were a civil ruler and there were a conflict, I would go to war against the Pope. The 69th Regiment would ask to be sent over first...
...progress of Chinese toward multiplying their might against the elements by adopting Occidental mechanisms and methods. Such progress is now held virtually at a standstill by the War Dragon. With each successive year since the fall of the Empire, China has weltered ever deeper in the morass of civil war. To-day three principal "War Lords" (see below) and their countless satellite "Generals" claim to rule China, but are merely raping her resources for themselves...
...First Civil Governor of the Canal Zone, acting Quartermaster General during the World War, a member of the War Industries Board, Major Gen. Goethals retired in 1919. He sat in a Wall Street Office and remodeled strange, stubborn places of the earth as a distinguished consulting engineer...
...Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York. It was impossible to persuade Southerners to nominate Governor Smith four years ago in the Manhattan madhouse. But Southerners are gentlemanly hosts. At and after the first national political convention to be held in the South since the Civil War, Southerners would not (the Smith men thought) discomfit their guests nor disrupt the party by refusing to honor the outstanding Northern candidate. . . Having voted for Houston, outstanding Smith men were placed on the committee of arrangements, including Norman E. Mack of New York, Frank Hague of New Jersey, Isadore Dockweiler of California, George...
During the Civil War, these two young Bostonians carried on a highly interesting correspondence. Ropes was at the time a student of law, while Gray was an officer in the Union Army. Their letters are of the greatest value as a source book of first-hand information, reproducing in a lively manner the day-by-day progress of the Civil War. Illustrated...