Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge, unable for a time to obtain authentic information, apparently suspected that indiscreet Republican bankers were casting aspersions upon Republican protectionism for their own nefarious ends. The President thereupon trenchantly reminded the nation that those who lend money are ever anxious for international free trade, but that the Republican party stands ready to defend those who earn money in the U. S. with its tariff shield...
...that in time of peace our neighbors are our customers, and that their prosperity is a condition of our own wellbeing. If we check their dealings, their power to pay their debts diminishes and their power to purchase our goods is reduced. Restricted imports involve restricted exports, and no nation can afford to lose its export trade...
...same time representatives of the conductors and trainmen of Eastern lines were preparing to convene in Manhattan with their operators to discuss their wage increases. These trades want 20% increase, which will mean, if applied throughout the nation, $90,000,000 more in pay. The matter will probably not be decided before late December...
...Sorrows of Satan (Adolphe Menjou). David Wark Griffith, director of The Birth of a Nation, Broken Blossoms, Way Down East, the man who guided to stardom Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Carol Dempster, the man generally hailed as the "old master" of the cinema, has attempted the sublime. The first few minutes of The Sorrows of Satan do suggest a Miltonic vastness, but shortly thereafter the film settles down to a good little "heart interest" story about love in the tenements. Here, midst Dickens-like poverty and squalor, a pathetic romance almost blossoms into a wedding (Carol Dempster, Ricardo...
...most important that they take some thought of politics, and be given an opportunity to express their beliefs, in order that the rest of the country may know the feelings of the coming generation on matters of deepest national concern, and that they themselves should be educated in the conduct of politics and in the issues that confront the nation...