Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which the Red Cross became President Hoover's major instrument of relief, his chief weapon to fight congressional demands for Government assistance. Last week he was only too pleased to go before the 1931 meeting of the Red Cross in Washington and laud it for preserving "a great ideal of our people"-voluntary...
...your officers had yielded ... it would have injured the spiritual responses of the American people. It would have been a step on the pathway of Government doles. . . . We are dealing with the intangibles of life and ideals. ... A voluntary deed is infinitely more precious to our national ideals and spirit than a thousandfold poured from the Treasury. . . . In all this there is the imponderable of spiritual ideal and spiritual growth. . . . You have renewed and invigorated the spiritual life of the nation...
...contrast to the system employed in Great Britain and is as much a problem in our Constitution as it ever was. Much material for speculation is likewise offered on the question of whether the party system is the most practical means of conducting a government or whether Washington's ideal would have been a better solution...
...William Jennings Bryan era of statecraft, solicitous measures were taken to protect the native Filipino from selling his land (ideal for growing rubber) to "exploiters." He was to be educated and he was to exploit his land himself. He has been educated with marked success; but he has not made expected progress in developing his land, has turned politician rather than gentleman farmer...
...lady of 93, one of the guests on the stage. Professor Bliss Perry of Harvard, the Major's friend & biographer, recalled many an interesting fact: Henry Lee Higginson went only a part of one year to Harvard although he was described by President Hadley of Yale as the "ideal Harvard man." He gave the university Soldiers' Field and the Harvard Union (meeting house for undergraduates...