Word: civility
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Last week the trial was stopped for nearly half a day because it was rumored that the Civil Liberties Union had tried to tamper with the jury in the interests of the defendant...
...League asserts that the employees were unjustly treated and asks the President to publish the reports of the official investigations of the case. Although the 27 unfortunates have been restored to the civil service, it is declared that their dismissal was irregular, that now they are reinstated at less salary than they formerly received, that their names are unjustly left under a cloud. The New York World comments: " The head of the Arizona Vigilance Committee who said to the bereaved widow, ' The drinks are on us, ma'am; we lynched the wrong man,' expressed the President...
...toward the Ruhr. Mr. Bonar Law did not reply, but Ronald McNeill, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, on behalf of the Government, stated that its policy was unchanged and that mediation in the Ruhr was at present impossible. On a division of the House, ostensibly on account of a civil service vote, the Government secured a majority of only...
...Peking Government (with nothing but civil strife back of it) plaintively asks for the abrogation of the Treaty of 1915 containing the notorious "21 demands" which Japan, gun on hip, made her accept in 1915. Japan flatly refuses...
...American preacher remarked that "it would have been impossible to fight through the Civil War without the imprecatory Psalms." Now a large section of the church wishes to abolish such Psalms from their weekly worship. What Galileo said of the world might also be said of religion: "E pur si muove-it does move...