Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...press conferences, appeared at ten scheduled receptions, and shaken hands with 15,000 voters. He had collected two ten-gallon hats, a case of canned corn, had watched the dance of the Nez Percé Indians and had been serenaded in Portland, Ore., by a fife & drum corps of Civil War veterans whose leader was 95. His secretary, yclept Lemoyne Jones in the effete East, became plain Lem Jones as soon as he was west of the mountains. Like all Presidential candidates, Candidate Dewey came back with fine words to say for the strong, intelligent and courageous people...
Although a complete list of speakers is not as yet available, a large number have committed themselves to lead the discussions. Those who will speak are: Charles S. Ascher, of the Social Science Research Council; Arthur S. Fleming, United States Civil Service commissioner; Helen Hall, of the Henry Street Settlement; William Hodson, New York City Public Welfare Commissioner; Lawrence P. Orton, of the New York Planning Board; and Coleman Woodbury, Secretary of the National Association of Housing Officials...
...November 1861, when the U. S. Civil War was just getting going. Captain Charles Wilkes of the Union Navy, commanding the screw sloop San Jacinto, fired a shot across the bows of the British Royal Mail packet Trent as she steamed along the Bahama Channel. The Trent hove to and, under the San Jacinto's guns, surrendered to a U. S. boarding party the persons of James Murray Mason and John Slidell, commissioners on their way to represent the Confederacy in Great Britain and France, respectively...
...Mahatma declare that the time had come for them to go on strike against British rule. Well did he know that in this war India has not contributed anything like the money or the soldiers she did in the last. He knew very well also what another Gandhi-directed civil disobedience campaign would meana transportation tie-up of badly-needed supplies, calling out large Indian Army units, a constant worry that Soviet Russia might find such a difficult British moment propitious for launching a Middle Eastern "diversion...
Henry Villard bought The Nation in 1 88 1. Villard was a native of Bavaria; his name was Ferdinand Heinrich Gustav Hilgard, but he changed it when he quarreled with his father and fled to the U. S. A reporter, Civil War correspondent, railway promoter, financier, Villard married Gar rison's sister Fanny. He left The Nation to his son, Oswald Garrison Villard, when he died...