Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have had the blessings of peace and of honorable and friendly relations with our sister nations throughout the world. Disasters visiting certain of our states have touched the heart of a sympathetic Nation, which has responded generously out of its abundance. In continuing to remember those in affliction we should rejoice in our ability to give them relief...
...that these twelve months are drawing to a close, it is fitting that, as a Nation, and as individuals, in accordance with time-honored sacred custom, we should consider the manifold blessings granted to us. While in gratitude we rejoice, we should humbly pray that we may be worthy of a continuation of divine favor...
...fate of most governments is decided upon their conduct of domestic affairs. Has Mr. Baldwin failed? According to many, and Conservatives are numbered among them, he has. These critics point out that the "P. M.'s" dilatory attitude during the general strike and coal strike cost the nation millions of pounds. More important, since the strike virtually nothing has been done to force the mine owners to reorganize their industry-the most badly needed reform in the country, by common consent...
...call is no less potent because it is a silent one. The theory, if not the practice, of the idea that travel in the street is the right of the pedestrian and the privilege of the motorist has often been iterated. In an entire nation of increasingly nimble broken field runners there will be found few more ardent supporters of this civic principle than those members of Harvard College who are daily obliged to cross Harvard Square...
...current issues of two weeklies there are charges that in two countries which during the past year have been the scenes of American interest, trouble has still been going on without benefit of publicity. The Nation, always a trouble-maker, quotes first Mr. Frank Stimson, President Coolidge's representative in Nicaragua, as reporting to his chief on the fourteenth of May that the insurrection in that troubled country was ended; and follows with a list of casualties since that date in the continued fighting between the Marines and the natives; fighting which however necessary, has been all but completely ignored...