Word: nationales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The 26th is the "Yankee Division." National Guardsmen from Maine. They have placed their church not upon the ancient stones of the old site, but on the tourist-ridden highway from Paris to Château-Thierry and Metz; not over the tombs of long-dead Frenchmen, but beside the...
City dwellers with beery intent slip into shadowy doorways, knock or ring cabalistically, whisper passwords through peepholes, gratings, chained portals. Dry-voting country dwellers blithely bear in the grape and the apple, press the ripe fruit, catch the juice, hoard it away. When winter comes they have a convivial cup...
"The simple truth is that over my own protest I was urged by the Republican National Committee in two telegrams to make that speech. The week before it was delivered every word of it was carefully edited by James Francis Burke, a Catholic, and counsel of the committee. He did...
Last week Mr. Burke left his White House desk a while to ponder a reply to Mrs. Willebrandt's statement. She had transferred the odium of her Springfield address direct to him and his Republican National client. Careful not to contradict Mrs. Willebrandt in any major particular, Mr. Burke...
Of the War, Victor Berger said, "The chief fruits . . . for us have been Prohibition, the flu and the national debt."