Word: movement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speech the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battle Fields Memorial. He recited the history of Virginia's famed sons beginning with Nathaniel Bacon. Patrick Henry, George Washington. He lauded the courage of General Robert E. Lee. And then: "The main reason why we can .all join in the movement to commemorate the deeds of immortal valor which marked these battlefields is because we all realize that out of a common expiation our common country has been greatly blessed. . . . The growth which our country has made since 1860 and the benefits which it has brought all our inhabitants are unsurpassed...
...significant bit of "crow-eating" because the People's Legislative Service is the voice of LaFollettism in Wisconsin. It was founded by the late great Robert Marion LaFollette as the official organ of his Progressive Republican movement. The statement came, moreover, two days after an editorial declaration for Smith by the Madison, Wis., Capital-Times. The backer and chief stockholder of the Capital-Times is Alfred Thomas Rogers, law-partner of the late great La-Follette. Another stockholder is Senator Robert Marion LaFollette...
...Brother Bob. It was in his longer, square-cut face; Brother Bob's face is chubby-round, more like that of his stateswomanly mother, Belle Case LaFollette. It was in his voice, a sharper, stronger, more whip- cracking voice than Brother Bob's. It was in his bodily movements ? quick, alert, crisp; Sculptor Jo Davidson, troubled about the hands of his statue of Old Bob, caught exactly the expression he wanted when Young Phil sat down in the Davidson studio in Paris last summer and gripped the arms of the chair with a single firm movement exactly...
Additions to the Smith movement included...
...want is an education, in the academic sense of the word. That there was truth in this stand few will deny, and as few will probably take issue with the premise that the action of these two forces, the disappearance of glory from the undergraduate activity, and the bull movement in academic stocks, will tend eventually to the disintegration of many of the activities...