Word: america
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present administration has not disguised its hostility to West Virginia's basic interest." He mentioned that West Virginia voted for Coolidge in 1924 instead of its native John William Davis. "The State has received not bread, but a stone." The National Council of the Steuben Society of America recommended Nominee Smith to the Society's units and members (Some 3,500,000 German-Americans). Dr. Arthur Twining Hadley, President-Emeritus of Yale University, wrote a testimonial: ". . . The object of the 18th Amendment was to stop drunkenness and promote public order. This object has not been attained...
...madness to antagonize America . . . especially the great Middle West of that country, which is already suspicious of Europe. Suspicious?can you blame them...
...know how much is known here about that great Middle West of America but it has got the healthiest kind of conscience to be found in the world. It was that conscience which abolished slavery and I believe it will ultimately abolish savagery of war?I hope with the aid of the British Empire...
Some of us favor national prohibition and some oppose it. We think that differences of opinion on this question should not be allowed to overshadow other important matters, such as the establishment of friendly relations with other countries including Latin America; the protection of national waterpower; and the relief of agricultural depression, as to which governor Smith's desire for action contrasts sharply with the eight years' inactivity of the administration to which his opponent has belonged...
...most important factors in the formation of America and at the same time one now almost completely misunderstood is that of Puritanism. Those who have any interest in increasing their knowledge about this phase of American life have a choice of lectures today which discuss the Puritan civilization from different points of view. Professor R. B. Perry speaks at 10 o'clock in Emerson D on "The Critique of Puritanism," and at the same hour Professor Murdock will discuss "The Mathers" in Harvard...