Word: civil
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Negro hero of a famed slavery case which helped precipitate the Civil War. Dred Scott lost his case when the Supreme Court ruled he was not a citizen but "property." * Not to be confused (by males) with D M C," manufactured by Dollfus-Mies & Cie. of France...
Government in China is a sensitive plant, dependent on the weather. In summer when the weather is warm, Chinese politicos take the field. The Nationalist government must bend all its energies to preserving its existence amid ceaseless civil war. With the first frosts the troops in the field, like the sap in the trees, are stilled. Last week rebel troops were sufficiently frostbound to allow T. V. Soong, China's able, Harvard-trained Finance Minister to promulgate a law for which he and foreign traders have been agitating for years. The likin or tariff on goods shipped from...
...Baton Rouge, La., was brought John Schenayder, 82, backwoodsman, charged with making whiskey. Speaking only French, John Schenayder pleaded guilty through an interpreter, said that he had been making whiskey 50 years, had never heard of the Prohibition law, did noi know that the Civil War was over...
...inefficiency," of favoring license-seeking private power companies. Last week Montana's Senator Wheeler unsuccessfully tried to get the new commissioners to promise to dismiss Secretary Bonner. Stung by what he called these "slanderous statements" and "unwarranted attacks," Secretary Bonner informed the Senate Committee that he would request a civil service transfer to another governmental bureau. The insurgent Senators cheerfully sped...
...artillery and infantry garrison has rebelled," she whispered excitedly. "Agitators are running through the streets shouting 'Viva la Republica!' Hundreds of citizens have fled to the mountains. The rebels have killed two civil guards and one carabinier in street fights. They have mounted cannon inside the old Roman walls. Tomorrow they march against Huesca. They say that Major Franco is leading the rebels, but nobody has seen him. They...