Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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England has a right to expect of us at least as good treatment as we received at her hands during the Civil War. Although, at that time, the happiness of a large number of her laborers and the prosperity of a great industry depended on peace in America, England refrained from recognizing the Southern Confederacy. In the present crisis we must play fair with Britain. England best understands the Irish questions; let the decision be hers...
...cover page of a single magazine or grouped together on a single platform, such grotesque combinations as a Russian anti-Czarist who had learned in his youth to respect Lenine and an Irish agitator or agitatress; a Western I. W. W. angered because of the treatment of his leaders in our courts and an eastern highbrow who had detected an inconsistency in the government's policy; a former editor of a German paper who could see no wrong in the Lusitania affair and a religious pacifist who would not take another life to protect...
...fact remains, however, that Jenkins has received very bad treatment. He was arrested because he was caught with some bandits whom he swore had kidnapped him. As he was a consular agent, of the United States, the Mexican central government has the right to intervene in his behalf. Paragraph VI of Article 104 of the Mexican Constitution promulgated in February, 1917, expressly states that the Mexican federal tribunals shall take cognizance of all cases concerning diplomatic agents and consular officers. The refusal of the Carranza government to interfere can mean only one thing--an international break with the United States...
...same article remarks that the European country where professors enjoyed best treatment in the civil service--and in all Continental countries the teacher is almost invariably a state employee--was, of all nations, Czaristic Russia. Under the "Tchin," or semimilitary hierarchy instituted by Peter the Great and in force up to the revolution, a Russian college professor had the rank and salary of a lieutenant-colonel. Evan in Germany, where a similar, if less rigid, standardization of officialdom prevailed, the professor's rating was that of a major only. --New York Tribune...
...process is quite simple. The copy is carefully typewritten, then the typewritten sheet is photographed onto a sensitized plate. Treatment of the zinc plate in an acid bath eats away the metal around the impression of the letters, leaving them projecting from the surface. The plate, or cut, has then only to be locked in the form...