Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe that you can have a busted farmer and a prosperous city man at the same time.... There's something wrong when 1,000 banks out here in this bread basket of the nation 'go busted' in one year. I am not saying what form of farm relief the farmer should have, but he must have something...
Newton D. Baker, Wartime War Secretary, arose and said: "Almost ten years have gone by and we are beginning to see the real meaning and the precious fruit of the struggle. In the Old World, at least, men's minds are constructively working for peace. . . . Whether this or that nation joins or does not join them means more, no doubt, to some of us zealots than it really does in the long run to the cause...
Significance. The picture is clear enough: two nations glaring at each other over the tops of their high tariff walls. There is no dispute as to the right of France to erect a tariff wall as high as that of the U. S., or even higher. The problem is one of expediency. The U. S. sends many things to France that, on account of superior production facilities, cannot be duplicated so cheaply in Europe. When there is no intent to protect home industry, if the policy of protection must indeed be pursued, it would seem a signal lack of judgment...
...partly because the court is still in mourning for the late Emperor Yoshihito, who died last December (TIME, Jan. 3), and partly because there was no disguising the disappointment of the Royal House and the nation in the birth of a second daughter, there will be no great, gay lantern parades, no dancing in the streets, no flowery songs and no flashing oratory, no processions, no fireworks. The new little Princess comes to the Flowery Kingdom unheralded, unsung. Such is the way of the Orient...
Darwin's Home. Dr. Buckston Browne, London surgeon, offered, and the Association accepted, an endowment to buy and maintain for the nation the homestead of Charles Darwin at Down...