Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...factories are operated. The laborers-the real dirt farmers-would thus be peasants, for they would own neither the land nor the tools of production. Is this to be the future of the American farmer? It may be, but some of us who recall the original purposes of this nation cannot receive the suggestion with any enthusiasm. To us, the chief crop of American farmers is not wheat or oats or corn, but men. The best of our leadership in church and state in the past has been produced upon farms owned by the men who tilled them. Just...
...Governor Ritchie waxed fervent: "He has proved himself, of course, the great Governor of a great State and an honest, fearless and efficient administrator. But more than that, the masses sense that here is an authentic voice, not only of the Democratic Party but of the democracy of the nation...
...only three great men in Europe this year. One is Bernard Shaw, far greater as an educator than a playwright; another is Einstein, who changed the fundamental ideas of our entire world, and the third, perhaps the greatest of all, is President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, who first dreamed his nation, then made it, and then governed...
Said Dr. Henry Pratt Fairchild, social scientist, quoting the conclusions of the World Population Conference at Geneva last summer: "Migration alone is not a remedy for population difficulties, or the solution of overpopulation of a nation, unless it is coupled with knowledge and practice of birth control...
...everyone knows, the sturdiest opponents of birth control in the U. S. have been Catholics. Catholic women once were passive in the matter, leaving to prelates denunciations of the movement. Lately, however, the women have assumed active antagonism. Last week, when the New York council of the National Council of Catholic Women met in Manhattan, they voted: "To continue actively the protest against all legislative measures, whether in the nation or in the State, which would permit the dissemination of information resulting in birth control, and so undermining the sanctities of family life...