Word: national
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the disease was transmitted by Stegomyia calopus (mosquito) paved the way for the slaying of that "yellow dragon" and the construction of the Panama Canal. Major Reed died of appendicitis, is buried at Arlington. To the place named for him are taken men hurt and broken in the nation's service. Wives of Army men travel thousands of miles to bear their children there, with free and excellent medical attention. Last year 237 Army babies were born at Walter Reed. Calvin Coolidge Jr. died there...
...South may well serve the nation by avoiding the extremes...
Oswald Garrison Villard of Manhattan, editor of The Nation, was bequeathed the residuary estate (more than $100,000) of Mrs. Harriet C. Flagg of Brookline, Mass., when she died a few years ago. He maintained that the bequest was a trust, to be contributed by him to humanitarian causes advocated both by himself and Mrs. Flagg (famine relief, laborers' welfare, Negro social advancement, free speech, printing and assemblage). Flagg relatives contested that the "trust" was too indefinite, that they were entitled to the property. Last week the Massachusetts Supreme Court held that the bequest had been made outright...
...other religious bodies, as, for instance, Mohammedanism, with which it is irreconcilably at variance; second, secularism, or the onslaught of worldly philosophies upon the Church and its teachings; and third, the social gospel or social Christianity which attempts to enforce its teachings through coercion upon a State or Nation...
Since the sound cinema vogue, hundreds of clear-voiced "legitimate" actors have hustled to Hollywood to get rich. With them has hustled Actors' Equity Association, potent labor union which controls the nation's legitimate theatre. But Equity has discovered a mighty objection to its regulations. Opulent Hollywood thinks it knows of its own business better than Equity does...