Word: credited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soggy and undistinguished nation as the ultimate in America. But the Romans who, after all, made themselves a fairly energetic and successful nation for some time, were not always mature in their warrings or in their peace. And a certain playwright and wit has not yet learned to credit Britain with a complete maturity. Prosperous playboys Americans may be this diagnostician of the great American malady has found them that but at least they have not reached the complete decadence of a stultifying senility...
...striking column headed "1925's Account with Liberalism," the current issue of the Nation lists near the top of the credit side of the ledger the overwhelming evidence that the youth of today intends to think for itself. At approximately the same time that the Nation's editorial was written, nine hundred students, representing twenty denominations and one hundred and seventy-six colleges in the United States and Canada, met together in an interdenominational conference at Evanston Illinois. The list of opinions expressed by the convention provides interesting confirmation of the Nation's conclusion that youth intends to think...
Such an array of opinions, particularly coming from a religious conference meeting in Evanston, Illinois, is as surprising as it is encouraging. In that one item on the credit side of the Nation's ledger which is thus substantiated, there may be greater significance than in all those on the debit side: and these range from "one burning alive and fourteen other lynchings" and "the Scopes prosecution and its revelation of American superstition and bigotry" to "the continued failure to enforce the prohibition law and the resultant demoralization," and "the retention of Wilbur and Kellogg in the Cabinet...
Attorney Recht flayed these insinuations: "I am acting, in this instance, for the Credit Bureau of Moscow, a firm sanctioned by the Soviet Government but independent of it. . . . There is no idea of bringing pressure to secure recognition for the Soviet Government. . . . Claims of a similar kind aggregating $40,000,000 are now being filed against U. S. insurance companies by numerous legal firms retained by private citizens of Russia...
...Finally after a four years' struggle "with scarcely a night at the theatre," the magazine was netting $100 a week. He bought everything?paper, printing, salaries?"on time," and collected $95,000 to advertise some more. Munsey told it later: "The very audacity of it all gave me credit, and more and more credit all the while. But merciful heavens, how the bills fell due! The cry from in town and out of town, from...