Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Mexican War broke out (1846), there was no holding Sailor Buchanan: he applied for active service, was accepted, and saw it. "For services rendered in Mexico," he was officially complimented by the Maryland Legislature, presented with 160 acres in Iowa. The Civil War found him in command of Washington Navy Yard. He resigned, later asked to have his resignation reconsidered; was told curtly that his name had been "stricken from the rolls of the Navy." Sailor Buchanan said good-bye to his family, went to Richmond, became captain in the Confederate Navy. In March, 1862, in the reconditioned...
Coincident with this settlement was a request that the U. S. government discontinue a civil suit brought against onetime Alien Property Custodians Francis P. Garvan and A. Mitchell Palmer, the eleven partners of Hornblower & Weeks, the Chase Securities Co. and others...
...Iowa four more children were born; one, a girl, died in childhood. The farm made money, but Grandma never liked it; she was glad when they moved in to Fort Madison. The Civil War did not touch the Brown tribe very nearly. None of Grandma Brown's sons were called to the colors; Morgan's raiders threatened once, but never appeared...
...General" Mitchell marshaled battalions of statistics to show how U. S. court business has increased, cited the case of Judge Joseph West Molyneaux of Minneapolis who ''has broken down from overwork and is unable to return to the bench." On June 30 there were 149,033 cases, civil and criminal, pending in U. S. courts...
...were planned, which provide a sound, broad, scientific training that recognizes the main fields of engineering, but without specialization. The Freshman year is practically common to all. Some of the programs begin to be differentiated in the second year, and others in the third; but in mechanical, electrical, and civil engineering the first three years are practically identical. The schedule of studies is simple and progressive, but rigorous. Not more than five subjects may be taken simultaneously. Routine so-called practical work and ephemeral descriptive instruction are minimized. And students who enter upon one program may readily change to another...