Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...slip back into the dark ages. Although the present is built on doctrines and theories of the past, many of the latter are obsolete now. The whole organization of society has changed. New means of transportation has greatly decreased, whether we willed it or not, that isolation of this nation which Washington urged. By our entrance into the World War, we gave up formally our position apart from the affairs of the world. We are in them now; we cannot withdraw. The progress of science and the development of a humanitarian feeling for the rest of mankind has placed...
...every man accused of a crime to a fair trial before an established court. It brutalizes the communities which suffer it by breeding a spirit of lawlessness and cruelty in those young people who constantly witness barbarities unpunished and uncondensed. It blots our fair fame as a nation, for we cannot claim to be civilized until our laws are respected and enforced and our citizens secured against the hideous cruelties of which we are constantly furnishing fresh examples...
...League could possibly be devised that would please all shades of opinion in each of the member nations. No League could exist unless each nation were willing to share in its obligations and responsibilities...
...type of plane at Rockaway, where he was appointed in charge of the NC-4. It was in this capacity that he flew the NC-4 to victory over her sister planes in May, 1919, thus giving the United States the honor of being the first nation to successfully complete a transatlantic fight with a heavier-than-air machine...
...exception to this rule. If it has accomplished nothing else, it has brought to light men like Governor Coolidge. Throughout the whole unpleasant affair he has shown himself worthy of the greatest respect. His initiative, courage, and foresight saved his capitol, and possibly his state, from anarchy. The nation needs more public men who maintain in dealing with police strikers, that "there is no middle ground...