Word: civility
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...Military men are something more than soldiers," according to Secretary of War Weeks. In a recent issue of the Army Recruiting News he gave statistics of the records of 2,371 graduates of West Point who daring the first century of the Academy's existence went into civil life...
Some budget proposals: New taxation on patent medicines and per- fumes; tooth paste and face powders exempted. Embargo on boots and shoes to be removed, but duties to be increased. Tax on matches to be doubled. Salaries of civil servants to be reduced...
...civil marriage will take place in the Palace at 10 o'clock on the morning of April 9. The religious ceremony will follow half an hour later in the Chapel Royal...
...Congress not only first declared war, but actually did so five days after the objectionable. British "Orders in Council" had been revoked, though at the time ignorant of that fact. The Civil War is out of the picture; but the United States itself was the aggressor in the Mexican and Spanish Wars. Even the World War was begun by us under circumstances which not a few European nations were willing to accept rather than themselves fight, and it certainly cannot be used as a case for the necessity of defensive preparation. There was of course provocation of more or less...
...long period of negotiations they started between the Emperor and the Hungarian Diet, which culminated in a declaration of war between the two countries. The House of Habsburg was only saved in this instance by the opposition of the Slavs to the Magyars and the consequent state of civil war. At the end of 1848 the Emperor Franz Josef I ascended the throne on the abdication of Ferdinand I, and early next year the Hungarians were defeated and deprived of all constitutional rights...