Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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With utter tactlessness, Wang declared his Government the representative of the original and only Kuomintang (Nationalist Party), preempted the flag with a twelve-point star which Chinese soldiers carry in battle, absorbed all existing Japanese puppet regimes, commanded China's civil servants to leave Chungking and join him. He took a trip to Sun Yat-sen's tomb at Purple Mountain, near Nanking, there prayed and wept. By week's end he blandly approved "liquidation of the Chungking regime"-something 1,125,000 Japanese soldiers have spent two-and-one-half years trying to accomplish; and ordered...
...weather was clear and the Congress track was fast on the afternoon when Gandhi's first spring put him out in front. He urged the Congress guiding committee to approve a resolution in favor of delaying civil disobedience while pressing for independence by negotiation. The committee obeyed. Saint Gandhi thanked them in a speech bristling with humility: "I am called Mahatma, but I am an ordinary man. I have blundered and committed mistakes. ... I am perhaps the poorest general any army ever had. My only wealth is your love. If you don't like me, remove...
Next morning, in another courtroom, Circuit Judge Ernest F. Oakley gave out a separate decision in a civil action, held that Big John Nick had received the money, ordered him to pay the union $10,000. Editor Coghlan's temper boiled over. Into the Post-Dispatch he hurled an angry editorial...
...order are made a laughing stock. The next day, in another courtroom, the force of the law strikes with lightninglike retribution. ... A case? Yes and no. No, if you are in criminal division before Judge Rowe. If you are in civil division before Judge Oakley, yes-emphatically yes!" With Editor Coghlan's blast ran a biting cartoon by Daniel Fitzpatrick...
...problem of graduate housing has been under consideration for the past two years by a committee appointed by Harald M. Westergaard, Gordon McKay Professor of Civil Engineering and Dean of the Graduate School of Engineering, although it has just recently been brought to prominence by the P. B. H. questionnaire...