Word: jingo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CUNNINGHAM Jingo, Tenn...
Still hog-tied by Japan's militarists, the Empire's peace-minded politicians last week tried to upset the jingo Cabinet of Premier Admiral Okada by exploding a bomb of scandal. They blew up the previous Cabinet by the same tactics, proved embezzlement on "subordinates" of sly old Finance Minister Takahashi (TIME, July 16). Although the old fox is again Finance Minister, for the seventh time, and although the new Cabinet is again riding them, the timid but persistent politicians last week maneuvered blunt War Minister General Hayashi into serious admissions...
...competition of cheap slave labor. A noted boozer, tobacco-chewer and wencher, sly "Ace" is first seen confessing his sins to a camp-meeting audience so he can mount the rostrum and persuade the good folk to elect him Kansas' first Senator in 1861. He is elected, goes thoroughly jingo when the first shell bursts over Fort Sumter, becomes chairman of the Military Affairs Committee. Then, after three years, "Ace" is sickened by the casualty lists, decides to end the fighting...
...California's Robert Gordon Sproul: I am no flag-waving jingo but I have grown infinitely weary of the deprecation of America and American institutions. Listen and learn about Communism, Socialism and every other "ism" so that you may balance the different systems one against the other, but don't be misled...
When in January the Seven Wise Men of the Economics Department contributed "The Economics of the Recovery Program" to Harvard's already well nourished reputation as a home for die-hard academicians schooled in the embalmed jingo of a dead era, it was not Professor Taussig nor Professors Carver nor Burbank nor any other of the great Civil War school, but a new-comer, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, J.U.D., ex-finance minister of Austria, internationally known economic theorist, and no fool, who showed his hand...