Word: home
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dapper little Publisher Roy Wilson Howard of the Scripps-Howard chainpapers, fresh home from interviewing bigwigs all over Europe, declared that the greatest menace in Europe was the possibility that the French and English people would finally say: "Dear God, if we've got to fight this war, let's do it and get it over with. . . . Too much emotionalism and too little realism are being evidenced in the U. S. toward the entire European situation...
...until Roosevelt I entered the White House did Author Mahan come into the honors due a major prophet at home. In the Mahan works, Theodore Roosevelt found the perfect articulation of his Big Stick. Five years before the Spanish-American War, Alfred Mahan had preached that the U. S. should annex Hawaii and then defend it with a Big Navy. He declared that the Navy should not only follow but carry the U. S. dollar into world markets, that the U. S. like imperial Britain should take and govern backward peoples for their own good. A Big Navy he called...
...heard little of the New Deal, but every member of the Government, whether it lies in his province or not, is ballyhooing the foreign situation, trying to stir up prejudice against this country or that, and at all costs take the minds of the people off their troubles at home. One thing is perfectly clear-no denouncing of dictators or eulogies of democracies can improve the condition of the people of this country by one penny of income...
Last week while Britain sent her Ambassador back to Berlin (see p. 22) to seek peace, she busied herself at home with preparations...
...Australian politics had ever heard. He accused Robert Menzies of being a stubborn mule, a backstabber, a coward. As proof of the last epithet, he charged that Mr. Menzies had resigned from the Army during the War instead of going overseas. Like many another Briton, Robert Menzies stayed at home to finance the family while his brothers went...