Word: manifestants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James Whitcomb Riley. Onetime Senator Beveridge was famed as orator, author, statesman. While at De Pauw University he won an intercollegiate oratorical medal, awarded in another year to the late Senator Robert Marion LaFollette. Entering the Senate in 1899 he was an ardent Imperialist, supporting McKinley's "manifest doctrine" policy, advocating permanent retention of the Philippine Islands. He joined the Progressive Party in 1912, was chairman of the Roosevelt convention. In 1922 he was defeated for the Senate by the late Samuel M. Ralston. A war correspondent in 1914-15, he interviewed Kaiser Wilhelm II, published a volume, What...
Such was the phenomenon brought to light by one Robert Marshall, tree experimenter of Missoula, Mont. In the Nation, he wrote: observed a peculiar biological-political relationship in the annual rings of the trees. Three marked periods of retarded growth were manifest, just prior to 1828, 1884 and 1912. These were the years of major catastrophes for Republicans. In 1828, log-cabin-and-hard-cider Andrew Jackson smote them down; in 1884, rotund-reformer Grover Cleveland, in 1912, scholar Woodrow Wilson. ... It struck me that possibly the same lack of rainfall which caused the trees to wane also caused...
Today, in Appleton Chapel, Harvard College gives manifest evidence of its share in this timeless celebration of its great president. There will be no more parades. But the spirit behind this afternoon's service will be that which will survive all the flags and academic glories that ever celebrated this man yet alive...
...family loyalty, and a race loyalty, but no national loyalty he is not affected by the war situation in the manner of a European type. The Jew, a realist, sees the economic waste of war, and desires peace in which to make his competitive economic superiority manifest. The European so completely lacks the rational disinclination of the Jew to fight that he applies to it the term "cowardice,"* and does not recognize it as a virtue. Thus many Jews died during the War, but many more were able to distance competitors in business whose commercial efficiency was lowered by their...
...remove all taint of suspicion that I speak from interested motives, I remark that I was born and reared in the Presbyterian faith. . . . I do not propose to interfere with the efforts of the Executive to protect the interests of the United States until and unless it becomes manifest that he is pursuing a dangerous course. . . . Sir, I do not believe we are in danger of war with Mexico unless it is stirred up by intemperate speeches and intemperate articles in newspapers. . . . Intolerance, sir, is the child of ignorance. Give me the radius of any man's intelligence...