Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...delegates had generally held, with Hamilton and Madison, that the true source of security in a representative republic came from frequent election and rotation in office, had agreed with George Mason of Virginia that "the very palladium of civil liberty" lay in "that the great officers of State and particularly the Executive, should at fixed periods return to that mass from which they were at first taken, in order that they may feel and respect those rights and interests which are again to be personally valuable to them." Concurred Benjamin Franklin: "In free governments, the rulers are the servants...
...growth of the U. S. has been one of the wonders of the Western world. Its population jumped from 2,945,000 in 1780 to some 30,000,000 just before the Civil War. Since 1880, the decennial rate of increase has declined. Predictions were that the country would reach a static population in 1970-80. Census figures last week bore out the prophecy. The rate of increase in 1920-30 was 16.1%; in 1930-40: 7. Commented Mr. Austin: "We don't have enough babies and we are not building up with immigration from abroad." To many this...
Before the Civil War, when most citizens still doubted that there would be a war, U. S. Army privates rated $13 a month. Then war came after all, the Confederates scared the Yankees at Bull Run, and Union privates got a $100 bounty for enlisting. In 1864, when conscription had at last been voted, pay rose to $14.87. Ma jor General Ulysses Simpson Grant by then was winning the war and buying his salutary whiskey on $2,640 a year (plus keep, four servants). As a lieutenant gen eral and later a full general he received...
...ranks next to the Victoria Cross" (which is the supreme British decoration awarded for valor in the Armed Forces), and the George Medal is "for wider distribution" -i.e., will probably be awarded wholesale among British fire fighters and airraid wardens of valor. Purpose: to strengthen the morale of the civil population, which was inevitably beginning to feel the strain...
...Most of the well informed people whom I met had fatalistic attitude that whatever happens depends on Washington," he said in an interview yesterday. He believes that to avoid the serious civil war which would result if the U. S. supported Almazan, Secretary of State Hull has indicated a slight preference for Camacho, whose party now seems predominant...