Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With the nation unusually occupied with questions of paramount importance, domestic and international. Congress still concerns itself with little more than a wholehearted meddling in the choice of the next president. For the last two days, the Senate has devoted its time, almost entirely, to a discussion of the resolution introduced by Senator Lafayette which declares the third term "fraught with peril to the country," and "commends observance of this precedence by the President." The last clause is violently attacked by Senators Bingham and Gillette, strong supporters of Mr. Coolidge, as an unwarranted intimation that his services are no longer...
...forceful prevention of wars under the plans now in effect, the United States still wishes to protect her prosperity by exchanging paper promises of peace with other powers. It is explained that this multilateral pact does not interfore with the League covenant or other alliances, because it an aggressor nation breaks it, the peace is no longer valid, and it may he attacked. What it does do, is to make nations liable merely on the grounds of political honor, an unsecured liability chosen instead of the punitive assets of the League, which seems, to continue the metaphor, bad business...
...called "Government by Committee." The Senate's Committee on Committees, invented in 1912, was a staple for the political japes of a generation not yet extinct. But now the system has been perfected into "Government by Inquiry." Whenever a "crying need" or "shameful scandal" is discovered, the nation's legislators (especially in the Senate) go through motions which notify the coun- try that (though the matter may be handled by one of the 79 committees which Congress keeps standing for all purposes) the treatment will not be mere routine efficiency but something extra-special and significant indeed. Sometimes...
...desire to disdiplomatize the Governing Board," said Mexican Delegate and Supreme Court Justice Urbina, urging that the Board should be made up of special representatives of each nation, and not, as at present, of the diplomatic representatives of Latin American states at Washington, sitting under the chairmanship of the U. S. Secretary of State...
...Mary Pickford or Mack Sennett, making a picture a day. According to tradition, it was D. W. Griffith who suggested that cinemas be lengthened to two reels, who invented the closeup, who enlarged the scope of the camera beyond that of the human eye. His The Birth of a Nation was perhaps the first picture which approached the potentialities of the cinema. Others, a list which betray D. W. Griffith's highly disputable flair for titles, are: Hearts of the World; Broken Blossoms; Orphans of the Storm; America. Beau Sabreur. Two novels, both best sellers, both written by Captain...