Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invitation to a strike-settlement conference (see THE CABINET), Victor L. Berger of Wisconsin, lone Socialist in the House, offered a resolution to have the U. S. take over the coal mines if the operators sought to "continue to rule or ruin, as they see fit, one of the Nation's basic industries." In 1902, when under similar conditions President Roosevelt issued a similar ultimatum, the coal operators surrendered. Last week, the House referred Mr. Berger's resolution to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce...
...made. "How many members of this House," he concluded, 'believe that the Church would survive disestablishment? I believe that I am right in thinking that the spirit . . . of compromise which has been a mark of the Church of England for centuries is a thing worth preserving in national life." Such reasoned argument appealed to many in the House, but passions began to stir when a fiery blast against "compromise" was blared by the Home Secretary, hot-headed reactionary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks. Cried he: "Romish practices have been tolerated too long in the Church of England! The bishops...
Approving Fascist editors exulted, last week, that each unsent greeting will conserve to the nation "not less than half an ounce of high grade paper pulp," and will release the price of stamp or telegraph fees for "more constructive expenditures...
...National Defense. "Being a nation relying hot on force, but on fair dealing and good will, to maintain peace with others, we have provided a moderate military force in a form adapted solely to defense. It should be continued...
...straightened out Nicaragua. China, "that unhappy country," will be a problem indefinitely. We can afford to be patient, generous, liberal. "Proposals for promoting the peace of the world will have careful consideration. But we are not a people who are always seeking for a sign. . . . The heart of the Nation is more important than treaties...