Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significance. In his peroration, which drew the Chamber's landslide vote of confidence, M. Herriot declared, "It was not only the heroism of her sons that saved France in 1914 but her magnificent innocence which drew to her aid all the free peoples of the world...
love of his neighbor does not prevent the necessary educational severity, much less differences and distances. Fascism rejects universal brotherhood." Economics. "Fascism believes always in sanctity and heroism-that is, in acts in which no economic motive, distant or near, enters. . . . Fascism rejects the conception of economic 'happiness...
...political and religious, imperial and native, which serves as background to Gandhi's personality. For five and a half days Gandhi has fasted in the interests of his twin ideals, a united and independent India, and the greatness of the Hindu religion. Despite an Anglo-Saxon mistrust of dramatic heroism the ordinary observer is following Gandhi's struggle with admiration for the idealist willing to sacrifice his life for what he believes to be right...
...harbor, up on the rocks where she remains to this day. Live steam from broken pipes made below-decks an inferno. Last week at the White House President Hoover conferred the Navy's Medal of Honor upon Commander Claud Ashton Jones, the Memphis' senior engineer, for his heroism 16 years ago in evacuating the injured from her engine room...
...first candidate to enter this year's Republican field was William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan of Buffalo. As Wartime commander of the 165th Infantry ("Fighting 69th"), he made a great reputation for personal heroism, returned from France with his mud-splashed tunic heavy with medals. As U. S. District Attorney at Buffalo, he was drastic enough to lose some friends locally but to be called to Washington to assist the Attorney General. For three years with Mabel Walker Willebrandt, he practically ran the Department of Justice over the hulking shoulder of easy-going John Garibaldi Sargent. He climbed...