Word: civility
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...committee from the Civil Service Reform League asked the President to issue an executive order whereby the men who had the highest rating in examinations for postmasterships would automatically take office. The present method is to choose from the top of the list. The committee claimed that this would greatly lessen the President's work...
...Reds, applauded by Moscow, were active in stirring the proletariat to precipitate a revolution. Die Rote Fahne (Red Flag), Communist journal, devoted an entire front page to a stirring appeal to start a bürgekrieg (civil...
...Stresemann Government is in a very awkward position. Both the Right and the Left are strong forces to oppose. If they unite or if they clash, the Government is considered certain to fall and perhaps drag the German Republic with it. The German political atmosphere reeks with rumors of civil...
...general strike was proclaimed at Corufia in Spain as a protest against the war in Morocco. All stores were closed, tramways suspended service. To prevent disorders, police and civil guards patrolled the streets...
...reek of civil war in Germany...