Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...European democracy retreated last week before the triumphant armies of world revolution. U. S. citizens talked distractedly of intervention, defense, democracy, appeasement, protection of civil rights, the fifth column-especially the last...
July 18. Spanish Civil War begins...
...granddaughters of Ogontz' chief benefactor, Philadelphia's Civil War Banker Jay Cooke, attended the school. It was when the Chestnut Street Female Seminary moved to Cooke's suburban estate, in 1883, that Ogontz came into being. The estate was named Ogontz after a celebrated Indian Chief from Putin Bay, Ohio, who often visited Cooke on his way to negotiate with the Government. The school took over the name, kept it when it moved again, in 1916, to its present quarters. Principal Sutherland explains: "He was a very good Indian...
Last week an unprecedented movement was under way in the U. S.: military conscription. In only two wars-the Civil War and the World War-has the U. S. conscripted men for its armed services.* But this movement was unprecedented. It was for peacetime conscription, conscription as a preparedness measure. The changed technique of modern war and the changing temper of the U. S. people raised the issue...
...Civil War the Union did not undertake conscription until...