Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spokesmen Hughes and Borah were somewhat impeded in the East, towards the finish, by the popular impetus of Governor Smith's homeland campaigning and by the alertness of the Brown Derby's ablest assistant, the New York World. Editorial Writer Walter Lippmann and Governor Smith managed to draw both the Messrs. Hughes and Borah into side-arguments and self-explanations. Mr. Hughes was nettled to such an extent that he talked about "mudslingers," wisecrack artists" and "calumny...
...homeland there is little ... to do except farm and fish," said Manxman Cain. U. S. Manxmen, headed by Manxman Daniel Teare, did not favor this proposal. Said Manxman Teare: "I am an American as well as a Manxman and if we started making a separate quota for every little community the size of the Isle of Man, where would we be?" At the final session, however, the North American Manx Association was organized, with constitution and officers; its president was A. B. Crookall...
Died. Joseph Barondess, 60, famed Jewish philanthropist, pioneer fighter against "sweatshops," organizer of the potent Cloak Makers' Union, leader in the movement to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine; following an operation for goiter; in Manhattan...
...important members of the Poincare Sacred Union Cabinet regained their Chamber seats, including famed mathematician and War minister Paul Painlevé whose re-election seemed doubtful last fortnight (TIME, April 30). Finally a flurry was caused by the election from Alsace-Lorraine of three candidates who desire for their homeland a regional government, semi-independent of France. Since the Prime Minister had personally appealed to Alsace-Lorrainers to show themselves "French without reserve, without consideration, without reticence!" (TIME, Feb. 27) the three elected Regionalists loomed like three small flies in M. Poincare's great cup of triumph...
...race kept itself, the quicker and higher it rose among its neighbors. Today, writes the shrewdly erudite president of the American Museum of Natural History, "purity of race is found in but one nation-the Scandinavian." But, he laments, "so many of its best men have left the homeland for America that today the dependent class is relatively large; realizing these conditions, the Scandinavian people have set on foot a movement to keep the best men and women at home, and such a movement has also been begun in the United States. Such new racial consciousness is a hopeful sign...