Word: civility
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...international [economic] conference at Washington .... to take the grip of Wall Street off the Treasury Department .... prompt railway re-forms .... something instead of talk for agriculture .... to reduce internal revenue taxes .... legislation setting up a labor code .... a sound and just tariff measure .... to put the prohibition force under civil service rules .... adjusted compensation [bonus] for veterans...
...Italian Council of the Labor Federation decided to shun politics at the forthcoming elections. Its members are thus left free to choose between the Fascisti and anti-Fascisti candidates. The Council, however, took the opportunity to express its principles on labor and civil liberties...
...Roman poetic literature reached its culmination in the work of Virgil and Horace. . . . It is remarkable that Rome reached the highest peak of her literary success in a period very similar to the present one." The conditions were rendered unsettled by the "constant, actual or threatening, civil war," besides Rome's foreign troubles. Yet in this period Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, and Horace produced the greatest works of Latin literature...
...religious rather than political, there is much less popular knowledge concerning him. It may therefore, be worthy of note that he became rector of Trinity Church, Boston--in front of which his statue now stands--in 1869, after an active career of vigorous, successful preaching, particularly during the Civil War. In 1881, he declined an invitation to become the sole preacher and professor of Christian ethics at Harvard, but for a long time he exerted a deep influence upon the religious life of the University--a greater influence, probably, than anyone else has ever wielded. Incidentally, and with all respect...
Died. Rear Admiral Thomas Oliver Self ridge, U. S. N., 88; in Washington. He entered the service in 1851. In the Civil War he was second in command of the Cumberland when it was sunk by the Merrimac, commanded the naval battery at the siege of Vicksburg; was the "only officer who commanded sailors in a successful battle against Confederate cavalry...