Word: national
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Against the thesis of the British Admiralty that a nation's requirements for defense are absolute (specifically in the instance of light cruisers), Herbert Hoover maintains, as did Calvin Coolidge. that they are relative. Thus the British have insisted that they need a certain number of light cruisers, irrespective of how many or how few are possessed by other nations; but it remains the U. S. contention that more or less of these ships are required by a given country, in proportion as the number of prospective enemy ships is great or small...
Nearly everyone in the U. S. wants to believe, does believe, that Germany is prosperous and can pay the sums demanded of her in Reparations (see Inter-national). The majority may be right again, but last week some very pessimistic information about the Reich was vouchsafed by an expert known to have the ear and confidence of U. S. President Herbert Hoover. Indeed this expert, Dr. Julius Klein, was responsible for building up under Secretary of Commerce Hoover one of the most favorably-known trade in formation bureaus possessed by any state. He has just returned from a series...
...broadside. Sir Austen Chamberlain was present and rather more than close to tears. He has said frankly in the past that he loves France "as a man loves a woman." "Mr. Snowden has used a most offensive term!" cried anguished Sir Austen. "A most offensive term about a friendly nation - our nearest neighbor - describing them as 'bilkers!' An offensive slang term from the gutter! ... I say deliberately that no worse day's work has been done in any Parliament! Nor any greater harm!" Sir Austen seemed actually beside himself with grief and shame. "Bilkers!" his French friends...
...Federal Trade Commission's investigation, which was the outcome of the Walsh resolution, was the confined, in its opening phase, to the so-called public relations and educational activities of the public utilities, especially the National Electric Light Association. The investigation developed the fact that a systematic, nation-wide organization, termed by its critics a "propaganda machine", was operated by the light and power interests to influence public sentiment through the press and the schools and colleges...
...view of the deplorable scarcity of cuckoos that might take upon themselves the task of loudly singing "Summer is icumin in." However that may be, the Vagabond, last Saturday, having seen in the papers that this great invention-which has done more for sharpening the mind of the nation than cross word puzzles and "Ask Me Another" combined was about to be put into force again, decided to be a bit beforehand and improve the shining hour-and his physical well-being by undertaking an excursion up the silvan Charles...