Word: civility
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...There will be immediate, adequate, unshrinking prosecution, criminal and civil, to punish the guilty, and to protect every national interest. In this effort there will be no politics, no partisanship. It will be speedy, it will be just. I am a Republican, but I cannot on that account shield any one because he is a Republican. I am a Republican, but I cannot on that account prosecute any one because he is a Democrat...
...Dwight Filley Davis*, Assistant Secretary of War, called Industry together to explain a plan for coordinating the entire production of the country in time of war. He summoned representatives of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Society of Automotive Engineers-to meet in Manhattan with him and members of the Army Ordnance Department...
...successful farmer. . . . as a daughter of Mark Hanna, so long autocrat of the G. O. P., she learned the political game early. She played a prominent part in the fascinating life of the 'Little White House.' . . . Not even during its prominence as a political stronghold throughout the Civil War did this celebrated old Taylor Mansion on Jackson Place attain the distinction that came to it through Mark Hanna's famous country sausage and pancake breakfasts. It has been said that hospitality often masked political batteries...
...civil war which has swept over most of the United States of Mexico during the past two months (TiME, Oct. 29, Dec. 17 et seq.) was virtually ended by the Federal troops under President Obregon, who had received official assistance from...
...under circumstances indicating fraud and corruption," were executed "without authority," and were "in defiance of the settled policy of the Government," they were "against the public interest" and that therefore the President was authorized to order suits to be brought: 1) for cancellation of the leases; 2) for prosecution, civil and criminal, of such other actions and proceedings "as may be warranted." The President by the terms of the resolution would be further authorized to appoint special counsel for the prosecution "with the advice and consent of the Senate...