Word: civility
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...employees and functionaries of the Kingdom of Belgium received increases in salaries. M. Theunis announced last week in a speech on budget economy that only one employee had refused an increase. That man's name is Albert, his official title is "King of the Belgians" and his civil list (royal salary) is 3,300,000 francs. The announcement was greeted with cheers from the Liberal and Clerical party benches...
...party which will unite on a program of fundamental economic and political reform, including the nationalization and democratic management of public utilities and natural resources, taxation of excess profits and inheritances, government aid to farmers, opposition to war and imperialism, abolition of government injunctions in labor disputes, guarantee of civil liberties, and other measures which will pave the way for a government based on true political and industrial equality, social justice and world peace...
...nonparticipation." Briefly, he wished to free India from foreign domination, and to bring this about he initiated his famous triple boycott, urging all his followers to ignore British courts keep their children out of British schools, and refuse to take pare in governmental assemblies. The immediate disruption of civil affairs which the continuance of this program brought about moved the local authorities to seize the Mahatma and confine him in prison, after one of the most extraordinary trials in English judicial history...
...bonds provided by the visual example of his personal restraint, and the original "soul force" degenerated into mob violence. Gandhi, in prison, was helpless, and watched with a breaking heart the falling ruins of his ideal, as the swaragists exceeded his carefully planned limits and began a campaign of civil disobedience which has apparently ended in at least temporary failure...
...intended to say, namely, that the spirit of Harvard is wonderfully permanent in spite of the great variety of views, opinions, and practices in public and private life on the part of its graduates. I saw exactly that same spirit among the young men of Harvard when the Civil War broke out which I lately saw when America went to war with Germany;--the same identical spirit, the same purpose to do one's best to serve human welfare throughout our country...