Word: civility
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...would put the government on a basis more nearly like that of business than a Democratic one would. It has succeeded in a large measure. Consequently we are interested to hear that Attorney-General Daugherty, though not speaking for the administration, advocates political recommendation in place of the existing civil service requirements for government positions...
...more work. He finds that under the present system the employes in his department, which he claims to be as good as any other, think much of leaving work before they should than of being at their desks on time in the morning, and attributes this attitude to the civil service. To remedy this dolorous situation he would have a political committee recommend applicants for positions...
...that the attempts of Trotsky to Inaugurate a communistic form of government, modeled after the theories of Karl Marx, have been unsuccessful. The present famine is not due to the Soviet rule, according to Captain Hibben, but to an economic failure similar to that in the South after the Civil...
...Ireland was to receive all the benefits of a free, reformed English government if only she would behave and let her house be put in order; failed to make the average Irishman in the least enthusiastic. But now Ireland is in the business for herself. It may that a civil war will result; if so, Ireland is at least fortunate in having her internal struggles at the beginning, instead of after a century of, her existence as a separate state. It is interesting to speculate how much further advanced the United States would be today if the issues...
...Sultan to Constantinople. It would further entail recognition of the power of the Moslem in a British dominion, as well as the relinquishing of India to confusion. For the Hindus are not yet ready for complete self-rule, despite the great extension of powers granted them through an Indianized civil service, representation in the League of Nations, and equality with other dominions. Then, too, it would seem, from the evidence available, that after all it is the Moslem, and not the Hindu, who is the real evil genius of the whole difficulty. Perhaps the only way out of this curious...