Word: civil
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Wendell Holmes to the Law School pays a just tribute to a man who has filled the years between these milestones with quiet judgment. Graduated from Harvard with the class of 1861, the present Justice of the Supreme Court left academic Boston, to be wounded three times in the Civil War. Closing his service on the staff of General Wright, he began a law practice through which he acquired a reputation that finally placed him on the highest judiciary body of the land. As a great jurist, his knowledge of the law never has subordinated the human equation, never...
Seville. Eight thousand unemployed bearing banners, WE WANT BREAD AND WORK, called on the mayor and civil governor, demanded a dole of 75% of their former salaries. Seville's mayor announced that he would "do everything possible to get them work...
Last week's buy, the 100-year-old Inquirer, has been in the hands of the Elverson family since 1890. James Elverson, Civil War telegrapher to Secretary of State Seward, made the Inquirer the organ of Pennsylvania Republicanism. So firm was his conviction that employment advertisements increased circulation, that Philadelphians used to say "if you see a man carrying the Inquirer, he's out of work...
...Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, will speak on the subject "Beyond Humanistic Religion" at 10.45 o'clock tomorrow at the Community Church, service in Symphony Hall, Boston...
Asked if he would join the campaign of, intensive civil disobedience which the nationalist Mahatma Gandhi is now threatening to launch against the viceroy in India, Krishnamurti replied. "I would take no part in politics. I do not think of myself as a citizen of any country." He did, however, state that he believes India fit for self-rule, assuming she is safe from foreign invasion...