Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Elmer Lincoln Irey, Robert's dad, has been called the No. 1 civil servant of the U. S. Broad-shouldered and blond, he looks and talks like a Missouri-born Sunday-school superintendent-which he is. People who don't like him-he is particularly unpopular with malefactors of wealth -say Elmer has a heart of ice. The simplest way for the Federal Government to catch a crook is to look into his income-tax returns. Elmer Irey has done just that, long and efficiently. The story goes that big gamblers nowadays are careful to station a bookkeeper...
...Cooke I was a 19th-Century magnifico, and looked it. He financed the Lincoln Government during the Civil War, went broke backing the Northern Pacific Railroad. The crash of his banking house touched off the cataclysmic Panic...
...Russians and the world were planned long before Russia invaded Finland last fall. And the man who planned them-and whom the Finns revere-was the Mannerheim who served for 29 years in the Army of the Tsars and who ruthlessly won in Finland one of the bloodiest civil wars in history...
...White Terror. Accounts also differ as to the details of General Mannerheim's conduct in Finland's civil war, but the bold outlines are clear. When he reached Helsinki he found the city, and Finland, in chaos. Rioting had been going on since March. A Red Guard had sprung up in support of the Social Democrat Party, which had just lost its majority in the Diet. A White Guard was also being organized around officers of the old Imperial Army, had succeeded in getting arms & ammunition smuggled into the port of Vaasa, on the Gulf of Bothnia. Mannerheim...
...White Terror that followed the civil war there are many conflicting stories, but nobody denies that Reds were executed by the thousands, that thousands of others died in concentration camps and many more thousands fled to Russia. The Communist press claims 30,000 were executed, the Encyclopaedia Britannica says 15,000. Finnish Government sources put the figure at 2,000 executions, 10,000 dead of flu. Whatever the cause and the figure, they got rid of the Finnish Workers Republic...