Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prohibition or tariff or foreign relations, but it is legalized extortion and government-protected exploitation. It is a question of how much longer and to what extent the government is going to be controlled by big business at the expense of the rank and file of the Nation...
...matters, he was an able politician. He knew that religion is the keel of the Ship of State. So he said that in the great capital city which he wanted on the banks of the Potomac River, there should be a great building: dedicated to the new nation's religious life. This purpose the Episcopalians intend that Washington Cathedral shall answer...
Ever since the Atlantic fouled the gallant aviators, Francis Coli & Charles Nungesser, in their attempted flight over the ocean, France has grieved. Grief was tinged with resentment for robbing the nation of glory, two heroes of their lives. When, at the time Ruth Elder took off for Paris, two other brave Frenchmen, Dieudonne Costes & Joseph Le Brix, challenged the Atlantic, to another conflict, the hearts of all Frenchmen went with them. Their ship, the Nungesser-Coli, was to pick up the foil of the dead heroes, was to continue the duel on behalf of the entire nation...
...noted the present day offshoots of all of these. On sidings, huge stallion locomotives from far-away railroads have backed and champed; preposterously outmoded engines, like Shetland ponies, have pawed and whinnied. There were many Indians at the fair, members of the Blood and Piegan tribes of the Blackfeet nation.- In the pageant they had run in frightful fashion past the grandstands. . . . The enthusiasm of spectators was shared by sober critics. Said the New York Evening Post: "Few better industrial shows have ever been put on in the United States...
...nation will hope that Ruth Elder and other girls will stay on the ground hereafter, or do their flying over land and let men like Lindbergh, if there are any like him, do the ocean flying."?Arthur Brisbane...