Word: creed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible agreement among the Pacific Powers with respect to the future of China seemed nicely calculatel to meet these exacting requirements. The adviser of President Harding who proposed and carried the idea possessed the vision of a statesman. He was reviving the best article in the traditional American diplomatic creed. It was the article which John Hay first defined when he asked the European Powers to accept the Open Door as the foundation of their relations with China, the article which Philander Knox amplified when he proposed the neutralization of the Manchurian Railways, and the article which Woodrow Wilson repudiated...
...Liberal Club has a creed, but it wisely says little about it, apart from adopting the name Liberal. Its actions and program speak for it. The principal tenet of this creed is that every honest belief deserves respect and a hearing. There is no official club doctrine on the Mooney case, the open shop or the Irish question. Outside college, Liberal Clubs are fighting organizations but the Student Liberal Club regards the discussion as always open...
Under the unified lead of Gompers the Federation has made enormous strides since he took up the reins again after a temporary set-back by McBride in 1894. Now it is a powerful machine which each of the units would like to control for its own benefit. The creed of the A. F. of L. is a selfish one -- very likely copied from that of the employers whom it opposes -- but this selfishness is made up of that of the individual unions, and it is a constant menace to the solidity of the Federation. The candidacy of Mr. Lewis, which...
Here in America, the public "I" has assumed especially large proportions. The newspapers, with their flaring headlines, keep us in a continual worry of excitement. We are rapidly becoming a "front-page" nation, whose creed is "it pays to advertise" and whose existence is bound up in the news of the hour. We pass from thrill to thrill almost without pause; and the greatest thrill of all is to know that one's name is in every newspaper and on every lip. No less than eight people, for example, have confessed in turn to the murder of the banker Elwell...
...bring about a fair and openminded consideration of social, industrial, political and international questions by groups of college students. The organization will espouse no creed or principle other than that of complete freedom of assembly and discussion in the colleges. Its ultimate aim will be to create among college men and women an intelligent interest in the problems...