Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hard has been the lot of Britain's Conscientious Objectors for the past eleven years. Sneeringly referred to as "Conchies" by robust Britons who had no objections to the War, they have been barred from civil service positions. "Conchies" already employed by the government have been denied promotion...
...Except in the defence departments [Army, Navy, Air], no person shall in the future be ineligible for appointment to any place in the civil service by reason of the fact that military service was declined in the British forces on the ground of conscientious objection...
...hundred years ago in England, Roman Catholics could not be seated in Parliament without taking oaths that meant the renunciation of their faith. Then Irish Catholics of County Clare elected Daniel O'Connell to Parliament, threatened to elect him repeatedly until seated. Fearing civil war an unwilling Parliament and unwilling King George IV passed the Emancipation Bill, giving Catholics equal political rights with Protestants...
...administration of Mayor Mitchel. He has manifested great interest in Harvard as Chairman of the Overseers Committee to visit Harvard College. During the World War he was overseas in the Flying Corps. After the War he was Assistant to the Secretary of War in charge of returning men to civil life...
Turning from bread to babes Benito Mussolini spent one whole day quietly with his family before roaring back to Rome. Most Mussolinesque of his children is eldest daughter Edda. She, reputedly born before the civil marriage of her father was solemnized by the Church, now maintains a superior patronizing air toward daughters of the Roman aristocracy who dare not snub her in return. Recently she toured India, was pampered by Maharajas; presented with two tigers. Like Papa Benito she swims, dives, pilots a racing motor, sometimes takes the joystick of an air- plane. When he is away she is said...