Word: civility
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...Passed a pension bill increasing pensions of widows of Civil War veterans, excepting those who married after June 27, 1907. ¶Confirmed the nomination of Alfred J. Pearson to be Minister to Poland (TIME, April 7). ¶ Passed a resolution permitting the American League of Professional Baseball Clubs to erect in Washington a monument to baseball...
...Army Council would investigate all the questions raised. The amendments were then snowed under: 1) Proposal to abolish the death penalty for desertion, cowardice and similar offenses in war time, by a vote of 239 to 120; 2) Proposal to give a condemned soldier right of appeal to a civil court, by a vote of 193 to 120; 2) Proposal that a holdier, upon enlistment, may choose to refuse duty if called to aid the civil power in connection with a trade dispute, strike, etc., by a vote...
...organizers didn't make it. Instead, about 200 people gathered at Kresge to hear four speakers, including George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, moderators from the MIT Peace Coalition and the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, and "testimony" on impeachment from the floor...
...outline of Mussolini's work", said the Ambassador, "can be summed in two words-economic reconstruction. Economics are at the root of every question in this world. They are the prime cause of political strife, of civil and international wars. They are the basis of all social problems, the foundation of private or national happiness or distress, the prime movers in the development of Science and Art and the principal factor in the upbuilding of any great nation. Mussolini is fully convinced that it matters little if a government is red or white, republican or monarchic, revolutionary of hyper...
...King is permitted voluntarily to resign, retaining for life the title of King of the Hellenes, four-fifths of his civil list income and almost all of his estates...