Word: civility
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...born to Solomon Gompers, Jewish cigarmaker. That son was Samuel. He had but four years of schooling. At the age of ten he was apprenticed to a shoemaker; out of dislike for that trade he soon gave up that trade for cigarmaking. Those were the days of the Civil War, and his first serious reading was anti-slavery pamphlets. He became an Abolitionist...
...midst of the Civil War, aged 13, he came to America. Before the war was over he had organized the first cigar-makers' union in New York. Since then he has devoted himself to leadership in the American labor movement...
From Trinity College, Oxford, comes John Bird, whose father was head of the Natal Civil Service. He prepared for college at Clongones Wood in Ireland, and will take courses in philosophy as well as continuing his interest in literature, playwriting, and newspaper work. At Oxford he was a member of numerous literary societies and was a track "Blue", winning the hundred-yard race against Cambridge. He was reading "Greats" at the university, which corresponds in general with taking honors at American universities...
...Marechal Lyautey, French Resident General in Morocco, is expected to complete his task of pacifying that protectorate by the end of the present year. Well-informed circles in Paris have it that the reins of Government will be turned over to a Civil Administrator next year...
Effects. After setting up the National Directorate, the first act of the Dictators Avas to suspend the Constitution and dissolve the Cortes (Spanish Parliament). Red chiefs were arrested and imprisoned, except in cases where they had succeeded in crossing the frontier of France or Portugal. All the civil governors were dismissed. Don Luis Silvela, Spanish High Commissioner for Morocco, was replaced by General Aizpuru Mondejas, who was endowed with " full powers to crush Abdel Krim and retrieve the honor of the Spanish Army." Meanwhile Spain is to be governed by an oligarchy of virtual despots until such a time...