Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...others ready to work in factories. Manufacturers and railroadmen, who are the largest consumers of bituminous coal, refused to be alarmed. Ninety million tons are above ground, in storage, in freight cars-and, then too, the non-union mines in West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee produce 65% of the nation's soft coal needs...
Never, we are sure, has a greater compliment been paid to The Nation in the sixty-two years of this periodical's existence than that bestowed upon us by the faculty and students of Harvard University. The Crimson, having made a canvass within that institution, has discovered that The Nation ranks third on the list of weekly magazines in popularity among those who voted in this referendum. Only the Saturday Evening Post and Liberty surpassed us in the esteem of the thinkers in our oldest American university. Advertising agencies and national advertisers will please take notice that in esteem...
Grist for the tabloid mills, pun material for Will Rogers stuff out of which we-view-with-alarm editorials are written--such is the effect of William Hale Thompson's election as mayor of Chicago on the extra-Chicago portion of the nation. Meanwhile Chicago politicians scratch their heads and reformers settle down to a prosperous season. The city knows what to expect; two terms of Mayor Thompson have convinced it that all is not sweet and clean by the shorts of Lake Michigan. Nevertheless it is willing to have another...
...rise of banking in England from its small beginnings in the 15th century is one of the most remarkable stories in history. England was the leader in the Industrial Revolution, developing a reserve force which gave it is present economic supremacy. Professor Gay will discuss the banking in this nation when it was at its very height after a period of 50 years in which it had no big national war. Other lectures of interest...
...dealing with war from other than the motive of patriotic propaganda, bears witness to this truth. But it is the press of the world upon whom the responsibility fairly rests. That newspapers are the great public educators of today and that war is the greatest weapons of a fighting nation is its press; the greatest bulwark of a peaceful country should be its press. The justification of the newspaper as a social force is yet to be found. When it comes, it will be at least in part the repetition of pacifism in time of peace until the time...