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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inasmuch as it seems to be hopeless to expect a reform in the textbooks which teach free trade, internationalism, public ownership of private industry, etc., and inasmuch as it is apparently equally hopeless to expect the teachers in institutions of higher education to abandon their radicalism, and socialistic theories, the approach to the young man and the young woman who is about to become a citizen must be made independent of our educational system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 4/22/1931 | See Source »

...patriotic sentiment of France has as its object merely to conserve for her the place whereto she has the right; the independence she cannot abandon; the qualities which make her glory and her force; and full security which is indispensable in developing peace, and for collaborating in the largest measure to the progress and happiness of humanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Delightful Presents | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

...restraining a government from beginning hostilities. Certainly a formal association could have far more effect than a number of isolated individuals. When patriotism and national honor become sacred idols, as they do in times of imminent or actual war, many are constrained, for lack of moral support, to abandon the principles which they hold in saner moments. Such moral backing a Federation of resisters would give them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEACE IN HIGH GEAR | 4/7/1931 | See Source »

Three months ago, when Sophomores and Juniors were making their arrangements for rooming next year, there was general discontent at the scale of prices. Some men were forced to abandon their ideas of joining the cross-section. Now the Freshmen are aware of the same strictures, the same dissatisfaction is being voiced, and the results will be the same...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FRESHMAN INHERITANCE | 3/26/1931 | See Source »

...independent Fairchild company will build planes in its Hagerstown, Md. and Montreal plants. Aviation Corp. may continue to produce the present type of planes and engines at the Farmingdale factory, but must soon abandon the Fairchild trade name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Fairchild Solo | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

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