Word: americans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your description and comments on Jugoslavia indicate that you are following the writing of the American Weekly, published by Wm. Randolph Hearst. Or in the other words, as that American Weekly is commonly known among the people as a "scandal sheet." What you are trying to make out of it is a comedy, not an innocent comedy, but a comedy well aimed and with a purpose. And yet, in spite of those facts. I do not and cannot believe that you as an American newspaper man would cultivate in his heart such a purpose...
Meantime the Senate continued its examination of the roaring, boasting, accusing cause of the present lobby excitements -William Baldwin Shearer, "AMERICAN, CHRISTIAN, PROTESTANT, NATIONALIST," the high-powered propagandist who is suing the Bethlehem, American Brown Boveri and Newport News shipbuilding companies for $257,655 back pay for alleged services in breaking up the naval arms conference at Geneva in 1927 and boosting the Jones-White Act (ship subsidies) last year (TIME, Sept. 2 et seq.}. Company officials had testified they did hire Shearer, in admitted folly. Now the Senators had to hear Shearer. Between his gusts of anger...
...English audiences are far more demonstrative than American ones, for some reason. So I shan't worry over my laryngitis when I return to England...
...were it merely a case of "growing pains" in industry, not many people would regard the situation as a menace to American economic life. It is the shadowy connection with the Communist organizations of Russia that alarms the average American, and he sees in the Marion and Gastonia riots a threat of the violence that may spread to every section of our industrial life. The very thought of red Russian influence in American industry is a bugbear to the normal business...
...demand better conditions, the prosperous classes have cried "communism". History has also shown that desire for true communism is not compatible with a good living. The textile worker in the South is not really a communist of the Brook Farm or Bolshevik type. It is merely the American love of labels that makes him one. When the level of living conditions in the South has been raised to that of the rest of the country, the cause of imitation will be removed, and automatically the worker will be freed from the stigma of communism...