Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contributing more to the man power of the nation than any other citizen" was introduced to the President by Representative Warren of North Carolina. His name is Reuben Bland; he is 72, healthy, twice-married and the father of 34 children. Said President Coolidge: "You ought to be thankful for all your blessings...
Sensitive inhabitants of the State of Minnesota shuddered last week. Already their habitat had been flayed before the nation's eyes in the novels of crusty Sinclair Lewis. Already they had been represented in the U. S. Senate by Magnus ("Magnavox") Johnson. And now Minnesota was in a fair way to become another "monkey state" like Tennessee. The legislature had convened and one of the first bills to come up was one prohibiting the teaching of Evolution in Minnesota public schools...
Even politics, however, has its White Hope. In Mayor Rogers, the American public has the sole survivor of a great tradition. There are others on the borderland. T. R. B. in the New Republic, Walter Lippmann in the New York World, an occasional editorial in the Nation, these form a gallant and a pitiful band. And even these are not always unencumbered with such impedimenta as missions, ideals, or factional propaganda, all of which are spurious to the true satirist...
Inspired by the Wilson Day celebrations, there arose within the nation an anonymous donor with $50,000. He (or she) presented it to the Woodrow Wilson Founda tion, which forthwith announced that it would award two prizes of $25,000 each to the man and woman (between the ages of 20 and 35) who submit the two best articles on: "What Woodrow Wilson Means to Me." The manuscripts must not contain more than 2,500 words and must be completed before...
Urbane, but making little effort to conceal his happy mind, the Rev. Charles Stelzle, Chairman of the Church Advertising Department, International Advertising Association, last week made public with extensive comment the results of a ten-day "nation-wide" religious poll, just concluded. One hundred fifty-three city newspapers from Manhattan to Seattle had asked their readers such forthright questions as: "Do you believe in God?"† "Do you think that religion in some form is necessary?" To the first, 91% answered yes; to the second 87% yes. In fact all the proportions were almost equally favorable to the cause, unless...